Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:06:21 +0000 From: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution) Message-ID: <20030710210621.GC652@gw.tex.bogus>
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Hello to all, I'm using FreeBSD for almost 4 years and I will continue with it because I can't find better. I subscribed to a ADSL connection in Portugal that supports only PPPoE (and not PPPoA). Almost everyone in Portugal uses only 2 modems (supported by ISPs): Siemens Santis USB and Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB. Linux people has already support to Alcatel USB modems with PPPoE connections and FreeBSD still lacks of PPPoE support. I don't like Linux so, to solve my home network problem, I install a Windows machine to share the Internet (ooops!) across my LAN. The new Speedtouch 1.2 beta2 driver (http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html), already support Bridging 1483 mode (PPPoE support) in pppoa3 but without use in FreeBSD. Please read the following thread to see some solutions for implementing PPPoE in FreeBSD. http://www.mail-archive.com/speedtouch@ml.free.fr/msg04514.html For what you can see in this thread: "...that task is simply a matter of two or three #ifdefs for each BSD flavor, but nobody seems volunteering to accomplish it." I'm just a FreeBSD user not a programmer or hacker, so I can only help FreeBSD community asking you to try to implement PPPoE in FreeBSD so everyone uses it. Thanks very much for your great work, Nuno Teixeira -- /* PGP fingerprint: C6D1 06ED EB54 A99C 6B14 6732 0A5D 810D 727D F6C6 */
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