From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 5 1: 7: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFB5150A4 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15698; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:04:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990805180415.G13504@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:04:15 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Brian Somers , Robert Watson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Mail-Followup-To: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Brian Somers , Robert Watson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199908031321.OAA07776@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <199908031345.JAA09965@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199908031345.JAA09965@whizzo.transsys.com>; from Louis A. Mamakos on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:45:17AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:45:17AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer the idea of having something like PPPoUDP > > instead. This would provide all the same facilities, be very easy to > > implement (user-ppp can do it already!) and would be routable, all > > for a very small encapsulation overhead. > > This already exists; it's called L2TP. > > One of the desires for PPPoE was that an ISP could install a *DSL > connection to a customer, and use Ethernet as the medium between the > DSL "modem" CPE device and your PC(s). Using something like L2TP > would require that the DSL "modem" device either: brian, louis, et al thank you all fro the descriptions and gneral information regarding this issue. i've got lots of source to trace down. warm regards and much apreciations. cheers, jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message