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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 17:15:23 -0500
From:      Joong Kim <better@epctech.com>
To:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPOE Client Port Request
Message-ID:  <v04003a5ab5462568cda5@[10.1.5.111]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005151737010.98125-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
References:  <39206DB7.9456B9BF@thehousleys.net>

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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.

-Joong Kim
EPC, Inc.
www.epconline.com

P.S. We are in the process of testing out the "Linux Emulation" for this
linux application.  We got installed and running... but haven't tested it
on site just yet.


>On Mon, 15 May 2000, James Housley wrote:
>
>> "Chris D. Faulhaber" wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 15 May 2000, Joong H. Kim wrote:
>> >
>> > > http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe.html
>> > >
>> > > I've found this great PPOE client for linux.  Where would I request
>>to have
>> > > this client ported over to FreeBSD?
>> > >
>> >
>> > If you don't want to port this yourself, your best bet would be to
>> > request/inquire with the relavent group(s) (say, freebsd-ports,
>> > freebsd-net, or freebsd-security).
>> >
>> Don't we now have PPPOE support built in????
>>
>
>Yes, but perhaps this program provides something we don't.
>
>
>-----
>Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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