From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 17 2:37:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04A514C5A for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA25565 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:37:02 +1100 (EDT) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA26886 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:36:54 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 56371 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Nov 1999 10:36:53 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:36:53 +1100 To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph into -stable. (fwd) Message-ID: <19991117213653.A56017@gurney.reilly.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:52:23PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > I admit that it doesn't seem a minor addition, but > I'd like to get netgraph down into 3.x now that it has been shaken down a > bit in 4.x and to give it some time to settle before 3.4. > > reasons: > 1/ DSL in Canada is now switching rapidly to PPPoE. > 1A/ *Newsflash* mindspring has just gone PPPoE-only. > 1B/ UUnet is switching to PPPoE. > 2/ PPP will start using it soon (other than with pppoe) > and we'd like ONE version not 2 for Brian to maintain. > 3/ ISPs who may want to use the PPPOE server side are generally running > 3.x, not 4.x I've been watching things happening in the netgraph directory in the CVS mailing list, but not known what was going on. Is this some sort of IP tunnelling thing? Does PPPoE mean "PPP over Ethernet?" What's it good for? Why are these telcos using it? Where can we read about it? By all means add it, if it's not going to break my system. But when it's there in my source tree, I'll probably want to fiddle with it... -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message