From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 18:55:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EF937B8F8 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA62724; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:51:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA04841; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:51:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200003290251.DAA04841@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nsayer@kfu.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Colaberation invited -- ports/net/mpd-netgraph + pppoe In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Sayer of "Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:25:36 -0800." <38DFEDF0.BFCC1DD8@sftw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:51:37 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you want to test your results, I'd suggest using pppoed... if you can talk to yourself and to ppp(8) then you've probably got it right. FWIW, my eventual aim is to bring more netgraph stuff into ppp(8).... > I friend of mine just got Pac$Bell Internet (see the story in > -questions), and he uses PPPoE over > DSL to connect to the net. /usr/sbin/ppp works just fine, but being the > sort I am, I am dissatisfied > with the solution, since there's still so much context switching > involved (given that the equivalent > to ng_ppp is still in userland). > > The much better solution, IMHO, is to add PPPoE support to > ports/net/mpd-netgraph, and I have > embarked on a course to do so. It's slow going, as it's my first real > grope into netgraph in a big > way (playing with ngctl and ksockets doesn't count). > > I am plenty happy to talk with anyone about this and it would be > particularly helpful if someone > who uses PPPoE could test the result, when it's ready (my friend is not > inclined to be a tester for > this sort of thing. The current solution is good enough for him). > > The eventual goal, of course, is to have a pair of machines run PPP over > a cross-connect 10baseT cable. > At the moment, however, call "origination" is favored. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message