From owner-freebsd-net Tue Aug 3 0:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B3914E52 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10954; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:30:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:30:21 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: Brian Somers , Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Mail-Followup-To: Brian Somers , Robert Watson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:36:23PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:36:23PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > 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). would it be possible to run PPPoE with kernel ppp ? or would kernel users have to switch over to userland based ppp ? regards jonathan ps thx brian fro your help recently. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message