Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:54:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <199908030854.JAA00822@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:30:21 %2B1000." <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au>
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> 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 ?
You'd need to find someone willing to write it.... this probably
means going to the author.
WRT PPPoE in user-ppp, at the moment, I'm only interested - I'm too
busy to write it (unless someone wanted to pay me lots of money :-)
> regards
>
> jonathan
>
> ps thx brian fro your help recently.
Sure, no problem :-)
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> ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au>
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