Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:47:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909301738140.78515-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990930125201.D466DBE87@gw.nectar.com>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > > Yes. The boxes from Redback (www.redback.com) support this mode > of operation, which is primarily for sane deployment of DSL over > an infrastructure built on bridging. Alcatel DSL products, used > by BellSouth and others, operate in this mode (see RFC 1483 section > 4.2). Well, not *ALL* the Alcatels (thank goodness PacBell hasn't figured this out :-) ) If you have a grasp of DHCP, then PPPoE will look awfully familiar. There is a fairly detailed RFC out on it, although it lacks in the philosophy department which does influence your design. I actually hacked userppp to talk to RedBacks (and even had development gear to do it) about a year ago. That code is quite ugly and doesn't belong to me anyway. I've itched to reimplement it after Brian's changes to the lower-end device handling about 6 months ago since I had to make nasty, nasty hacks. I don't think dialup worked afterwards and doubt it ever would again on that code. If someone wanted to pick it up, I'd really try to get a demo SMS-500 with the appropriate firmware (AOS 2.2 or later) to hack it with. I can also lend advice. It took me 2 months to design & code it, and that was working part-time through school. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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