From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 13:06:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B4237B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sapo.pt (relay2.ptm.pt [194.65.79.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C724743F3F for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nunotex@pt-quorum.com) Received: (qmail 18347 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 20:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sapo.pt) (194.65.79.78) by relay2.ptm.pt with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 20:06:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 2443 invoked by uid 0); 10 Jul 2003 20:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gw.tex.bogus) (as1303000@sapo.pt@[81.193.17.96]) (envelope-sender ) by sapo.pt (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jul 2003 20:06:27 -0000 Received: by gw.tex.bogus (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 78B414570; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:06:21 +0000 From: Nuno Teixeira To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030710210621.GC652@gw.tex.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:06:33 -0000 Hello to all, I'm using FreeBSD for almost 4 years and I will continue with it because I can't find better. I subscribed to a ADSL connection in Portugal that supports only PPPoE (and not PPPoA). Almost everyone in Portugal uses only 2 modems (supported by ISPs): Siemens Santis USB and Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB. Linux people has already support to Alcatel USB modems with PPPoE connections and FreeBSD still lacks of PPPoE support. I don't like Linux so, to solve my home network problem, I install a Windows machine to share the Internet (ooops!) across my LAN. The new Speedtouch 1.2 beta2 driver (http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html), already support Bridging 1483 mode (PPPoE support) in pppoa3 but without use in FreeBSD. Please read the following thread to see some solutions for implementing PPPoE in FreeBSD. http://www.mail-archive.com/speedtouch@ml.free.fr/msg04514.html For what you can see in this thread: "...that task is simply a matter of two or three #ifdefs for each BSD flavor, but nobody seems volunteering to accomplish it." I'm just a FreeBSD user not a programmer or hacker, so I can only help FreeBSD community asking you to try to implement PPPoE in FreeBSD so everyone uses it. Thanks very much for your great work, Nuno Teixeira -- /* PGP fingerprint: C6D1 06ED EB54 A99C 6B14 6732 0A5D 810D 727D F6C6 */