Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Joong Kim <better@epctech.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPOE Client Port Request Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005160840140.2146-100000@earth.fxp> In-Reply-To: <v04003a5ab5462568cda5@[10.1.5.111]>
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, Joong Kim wrote: > I apologize for not being clear on this manner. Our local phone company is > being overwhelmed with the demand for ADSL market and they are growing too > fast for their own good. Anyhow, one of the problems with they're having > concerns DHCP and availablity of IP Addresses. > > As I understand correctly, the phone company is going to PPPOE protocol to > have more "control" over IP Adddresses so speak. I'm not sure if this > would help at all or not. I've heard that they have no control with DHCP > and people stealing IP Addresses. > > We've found this nifty client under Linux that seems to be resolve our > problems with ADSL, PPPD and PPPOE. > > I'm not fully aware of PPPOE implimentation under FreeBSD 4.0 currently. > We couldn't get the PPPOE working properly for our purposes. Thus, we > seeked other solutions. Here's one of the solutions we've found. It seems > to be a good solution for ADSL and PPPOE. > > Please advise if the current FreeBSD implimentation is designed to work > with PPPD and PPPOE on an ADSL connection. As I understand it, the current > implimenation only covers Ethernet and PPPOE. > > We would appreciate the feedback on this issue. Thank You. > I don't know much about our PPPoE implementation, but a good place to start looing would probably be: ng_pppoe(4) - RFC 2516 PPPOE protocol netgraph node type ng_pppoe(8) - RFC 2516 PPPOE protocol netgraph node type pppoed(8) - handle incoming PPP over Ethernet connections ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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