Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:54:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <199908030854.JAA00822@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:30:21 %2B1000." <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au>
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> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:36:23PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > robert@cyrus.watson.org said: > > > Bell Atlantic recently sent me this email indicating they plan to > > > migrate their DSL service to using PPP over Ethernet. I'm not > > > familiar with this encapsulation, but assume that it's something we'd > > > like to support if we don't already. Does anyone know anything about > > > this? > > > > Doug White's got a working implementation. > > > > User-ppp needs to be a bit smarter in the datalink DIAL state by > > abstracting the expect-send bit into a device-specific chat > > implementation. Once this is done, the PPPoE discovery bit should be > > a fairly trivial exercise by opening /dev/bpfX (I think). > > would it be possible to run PPPoE with kernel ppp ? or would > kernel users have to switch over to userland based ppp ? You'd need to find someone willing to write it.... this probably means going to the author. WRT PPPoE in user-ppp, at the moment, I'm only interested - I'm too busy to write it (unless someone wanted to pay me lots of money :-) > regards > > jonathan > > ps thx brian fro your help recently. Sure, no problem :-) > -- > =============================================================================== > Jonathan Michaels > PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia > ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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