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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:11:39 -0400
From:      Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumb Q: netgraph node init?
Message-ID:  <20021020171139.B1512@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210201342150.19091-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:43:42PM -0700
References:  <20021020141042.B20092@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210201342150.19091-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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+---- Julian Elischer wrote:
| > I have NETGRAPH_ETHER and NETGRAPH_PPPOE in my kernel config.  I don't
| > start pppoe at boot time.  Before ppp is up, ngctl shows ng_ether but
| > not pppoe.  What defines how ng_ether is loaded and hooked at boot time
| > as opposed to ng_pppoe loaded and hooked automatically?
| 
| ng_ether nodes are attached automatically to all exisiting ethernet
| interfaces.
| ng_pppoe nodes are only created when you ask for one.
| 
| do a 'types' commnad in ngctl to see possible types to make.

How does invoking pppd result in the PPPoE node being hooked and
initialized?  It looks like pppd treats a device called "PPPoE:xl0" as
a serial device or am I missing something?

Please excuse me if these questions are inappropriate for this list.

-- 
Steve Tremblett

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