Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:30:21 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:36:23PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990802173557.10530A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <199908022236.XAA02682@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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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 ? regards jonathan ps thx brian fro your help recently. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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