From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 23:41:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC8014E3A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA22256; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:41:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00486; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:21:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910040621.HAA00486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: PPPoE offer. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:48:02 MDT." <37F2B342.39A37A04@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:21:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > David Gilbert wrote: > > > > I've got some real $$$ available to encourage someone to make PPPoE > > work efficiently enough on the FreeBSD platform to handle a > > substantial number of users. Is anyone interested? > > Brian? ;^) There may be something real in the pipeline now. Julian E (cc'd) reckons he can implement a netgraph node pretty quickly, and if I'm interpreting the way netgraph works correctly, I could implement a talk-to-netgraph ppp(8) device in a matter of minutes (``cp udp.[ch] netgraph.[ch]'', tweak netgraph_Create()). The use of netgraph removes the requirement for the bpf device which would be a little bit too hackish. It also provides the ability to implement a PPPoE server - something that eluded me in the bpf case. > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message