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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 2010 22:12:25 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>, ticso@cicely.de, Pierre Lamy <pierre@userid.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: In-kernel PPPoE
Message-ID:  <20101205211224.GL36574@cicely7.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <4CFBF658.4060705@freebsd.org>
References:  <4CFBC86D.8090602@userid.org> <20101205173059.GG36574@cicely7.cicely.de> <4CFBF658.4060705@freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:30:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 12/5/10 9:30 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:14:21PM -0500, Pierre Lamy wrote:
> >>Just curious about why the in-kernel PPPoE interface was never ported
> >>from NetBSD or OpenBSD, to FreeBSD. Does anyone know why?
> >Maybe because everyone who cares about in-kernel uses the FreeBSD
> >in-kernel ng_pppoe via mpd?
> >
> >> From using it for a long time in OpenBSD I always found it quite stable
> >>and easy to use.
> >The same is true with mpd/ng_pppoe.
> while I like mpd, I should point out that the regular 'in source' ppp 

No surprise that you like it ;-)

> that comes with
> freebsd also uses the in-kernel netgraph pppoe module.   I use it 24 x 
> 7 on my gateway
> as I never got around to installing mpd and it "did the job".

Same for me if the machine's power is good enough, but my Router is a
tiny FreeBSD/ARM, which has trouble to keep up with load if running
traffic via userland.
I use mpd together with ipfw nat to keep traffic in kernel.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.



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