From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 20 10:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C0C37B73E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA34651 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:43:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:43:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: NETGRAPH in GENERIC? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Was chatting with Mike online, and we observed that more and more DSL providers are providing PPPoE by default in many parts of North America. Right now, this requires recompiling the kernel to support NetGraph as otherwise you don't get ethernet netgraph nodes. He also observed that compiling in NetGraph support added only around 20k to his kernel size (I haven't checked GENERIC). This suggests strongly to me that we should add NetGraph being to GENERIC, as this would allow kld-loading support for PPPoE and other spiffy things by default without a kernel recompile. Also, this suggests adding PPPoE support to sysinstall, although I recognize that that's a little more complex than modifying GENERIC :-). I was wondering what objections there would be to such a change, and whether people think this is a good idea. In particular, I was interested in response from those who know more about NetGraph than I do (almost everyone). Thanks, Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message