Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:24:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net> Cc: cgotzmann@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPOE Docs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004131524050.14085-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <38F5E619.24F90277@playground.net>
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man pppoed There is a PPP over ethernet daemon, at least in 4.x and above. On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Dany Cayouette wrote: > cag wrote: > > > I have study your docs about PPPOE and I have not yet got a good > > understanding of how this would be used or why. What the difference > > between PPP and PPPOE. PPP over TCP is to slow so I thought I would > > look at PPPOE. > > > > Here's what I understand. > > > > PPPOED would be used at the server to listen for PPP connections . What > > TCP /UDP port does it listen on ? > > > > Next how would you use the client / user side. All the doc's that show > > config samples for ppp.conf do not indicate how the client / user > > connects to the remote server. what host name IP address etc. > > > > What I am trying to do is create a IP tunnel between to FREEBSD > > gateways. Using PPP over TCP is to slow compared to the same connection > > not using PPP. I get about 1/10th the throughput using ppp compared to > > a straight ethernet connection over the same link. > > > > Thanks if you can clear this up for me. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > PPPoE appeared with broadband Internet access services (Cable modem and > xDSL). It is being 'forced' on the subscribers of some service providers. > I believe some of the short coming it is trying to solve is the lack of > authentication with DHCP. DHCP was initially designed for a corporate > environment and not really a public network. There is some work happening > to fill some of the gap. > > On of the concept behing PPPoE is that the end user and also the service > provider infracstructure is already establish to support PPP (because of > the existing dial up services) They can reuse their RADIUS server and > probably all account management tools they have created around it. Also, > in the case of DHCP you mainly have a 'pin down/static' connection. One of > the pitch for PPPoE is that you can select different services by login as a > different user e.g. user@isp.com to go to my ISP or user@corp.com to access > my corporate LAN. > > So the FreeBSD folks were great enough to give us a PPPoE stack so we > could use our favorite OS to access the Internet via our PPPoE enabled > service provider (Thanks guys!). So I believe the current implementation > is for the client side of PPPoE. I don't think there is a PPPoE server > implementation and I don't think there is much use for it but if you want > to implement one... > > Dany > p.s. I know a bit on PPPoE but I still consider myself a newbie on FreeBSD. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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