Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:51 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph into -stable. (fwd) Message-ID: <19991117130051.A4178@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <19991117213653.A56017@gurney.reilly.home> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911162146300.1657-100000@home.elischer.org> <19991117213653.A56017@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:36:53PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:52:23PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I've been watching things happening in the netgraph directory in > the CVS mailing list, but not known what was going on. Is this > some sort of IP tunnelling thing? Does PPPoE mean "PPP over > Ethernet?" > This is IP over PPP over Ethernet, not IP over PPP over IP over Ethernet. There is an ethernet packet type for PPP packets. Lots of ISP are now offering a direct connection service like DSL, which appears to the user as an Ethernet interface that they plug into. PPPoEthernet is a good way of managing these users. Before the recent work on PPP and Netgraph FreeBSD users couldn't connect to service providers giving this type of connection. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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