From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 16 0:53: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bb1.betterbox.net (bb1.betterbox.net [209.83.132.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B6137B544 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 00:53:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from better@epctech.com) Received: from [10.1.5.111] (guardian.epconline.net [216.178.14.38]) by bb1.betterbox.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27422; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:15:27 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: better@kira.epconline.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <39206DB7.9456B9BF@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:15:23 -0500 To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" From: Joong Kim Subject: Re: PPOE Client Port Request Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I apologize for not being clear on this manner. Our local phone company is being overwhelmed with the demand for ADSL market and they are growing too fast for their own good. Anyhow, one of the problems with they're having concerns DHCP and availablity of IP Addresses. As I understand correctly, the phone company is going to PPPOE protocol to have more "control" over IP Adddresses so speak. I'm not sure if this would help at all or not. I've heard that they have no control with DHCP and people stealing IP Addresses. We've found this nifty client under Linux that seems to be resolve our problems with ADSL, PPPD and PPPOE. I'm not fully aware of PPPOE implimentation under FreeBSD 4.0 currently. We couldn't get the PPPOE working properly for our purposes. Thus, we seeked other solutions. Here's one of the solutions we've found. It seems to be a good solution for ADSL and PPPOE. Please advise if the current FreeBSD implimentation is designed to work with PPPD and PPPOE on an ADSL connection. As I understand it, the current implimenation only covers Ethernet and PPPOE. We would appreciate the feedback on this issue. Thank You. -Joong Kim EPC, Inc. www.epconline.com P.S. We are in the process of testing out the "Linux Emulation" for this linux application. We got installed and running... but haven't tested it on site just yet. >On Mon, 15 May 2000, James Housley wrote: > >> "Chris D. Faulhaber" wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, 15 May 2000, Joong H. Kim wrote: >> > >> > > http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe.html >> > > >> > > I've found this great PPOE client for linux. Where would I request >>to have >> > > this client ported over to FreeBSD? >> > > >> > >> > If you don't want to port this yourself, your best bet would be to >> > request/inquire with the relavent group(s) (say, freebsd-ports, >> > freebsd-net, or freebsd-security). >> > >> Don't we now have PPPOE support built in???? >> > >Yes, but perhaps this program provides something we don't. > > >----- >Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org >-------------------------------------------------------- >FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org +---------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Joong Hyun Kim | BetterBOX.net | | System Administrator | http://www.betterbox.net/ | +---------------------------+---------------------------------+ | The "BETTER" place to host your mud and web site! | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message