From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 17 5: 3:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F2A14BC2; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA41603; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:52 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:51 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph into -stable. (fwd) Message-ID: <19991117130051.A4178@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991117213653.A56017@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991117213653.A56017@gurney.reilly.home> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:36:53PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:52:23PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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?" > This is IP over PPP over Ethernet, not IP over PPP over IP over Ethernet. There is an ethernet packet type for PPP packets. Lots of ISP are now offering a direct connection service like DSL, which appears to the user as an Ethernet interface that they plug into. PPPoEthernet is a good way of managing these users. Before the recent work on PPP and Netgraph FreeBSD users couldn't connect to service providers giving this type of connection. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message