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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:32:41 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        gcorcoran@lucent.com
Cc:        Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More on PPPoE & ADSL (Telstra Bigpond)
Message-ID:  <39F9E669.FB8D77D2@elischer.org>
References:  <F50iFEW6sStwNeKjUbE00001146@hotmail.com> <39F8C29F.D785C588@lucent.com> <39F9210E.B728D4F8@elischer.org> <39F9B679.CA563B9E@lucent.com>

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"Gary T. Corcoran" wrote:
> 
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > "Gary T. Corcoran" wrote:
> > >
> > > [Quick background: I implemented PPPoE in our DSL drivers for the Lucent DSL adapters]
> >
> > Under Windows I presume?
> > No BSD drivers? :-)
> 
> Well, actually...   :-)
> Besides Windows drivers, we were also tasked with writing drivers for Linux.
> We did that, but since I am a fan of FreeBSD, and I had already figured
> out what the porting issues from Windows to Linux were, I also ported the
> code to FreeBSD.  Until recently though the BSD version wasn't too useful,
> as FreeBSD doesn't presently have the capability to have parameters when
> doing a kldload (long story short: I need to know which main flavor of DSL
> protocol I'm going to use, to know whether to become an ethernet-like or
> a PPP device at device attach time).
> 
> But then Terry Lambert told me of a trick with loading an extra "parameter
> module" first, whereby I could do an ioctl to the parameter module, then
> load the DSL driver and have it read the parameters from the parameter module.
> I got this basically working last Friday.  I need to polish up the code a
> bit, but then it will be ready for beta testing*, if you have a Lucent
> WildWire DSL (PCI plug-in card) adapter.  Anybody interested in trying it?

no chance of adding a netgraph interface? 
ok ok so you already do pppoe but do you do multiple pppoe sessions with
ability to be a pppoe server? (which netgraph does.)

> 
> * assuming my bosses lets me post or send out the code at this time.
> 
> Gary

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