From owner-freebsd-net Tue Aug 3 1:54:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B4814F28 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA39473; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:53:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00822; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:54:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908030854.JAA00822@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jonathan michaels Cc: Brian Somers , Robert Watson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:30:21 +1000." <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:54:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 > =========================================================== -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message