Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:36:33 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <199908030336.XAA08095@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:36:23 BST." <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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> robert@cyrus.watson.org said: > > Bell Atlantic recently sent me this email indicating they plan to > > migrate their DSL service to using PPP over Ethernet. I'm not > > familiar with this encapsulation, but assume that it's something we'd > > like to support if we don't already. Does anyone know anything about > > this? > > Doug White's got a working implementation. > > User-ppp needs to be a bit smarter in the datalink DIAL state by > abstracting the expect-send bit into a device-specific chat > implementation. Once this is done, the PPPoE discovery bit should be > a fairly trivial exercise by opening /dev/bpfX (I think). I think, actually, that all of the PPP traffic will end up coming and going via BPF, since PPPoE uses it's own ethernet types. At least this is the way we ended up doing a prototype test implemention, also using the user-mode PPP daemon. (And sorry, by the time we finish up with the lawyers trying to get the code pried loose, you'll be done already. Sigh.) If you run into problems along the way, please let me know, and I'll try to hook you up with the guy at UUNET that did our prototype PPPoE client implementation. It was done on BSDi, but I don't think that's of any real significance. I think that he might have actually started with the FreeBSD user-mode PPP, but I'm not completely sure. It would be pretty interesting to do a netgraph implementation of this.. louie (a.k.a. louie@UU.NET) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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