Re: PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

2003-07-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Fred Souza wrote: > > The problem, as I see it, is that the only pppd that supports netgraph is mpd. > > I don't agree. Our ppp(8) also supports netgraph (I used to use it up > to 2 days ago, then I switched - maybe temporarily - to mpd for > testing). I use it to con

Re: PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

2003-07-12 Thread Fred Souza
> The problem, as I see it, is that the only pppd that supports netgraph is mpd. I don't agree. Our ppp(8) also supports netgraph (I used to use it up to 2 days ago, then I switched - maybe temporarily - to mpd for testing). I use it to connect to my ADSL ISP, using PPPoE. Here's my /etc/

Re: PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

2003-07-12 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at ... > > The main problem involved in updating it has merging the FreeBSD > changes into the significantly different pppd code. If the Debian > people have done this, then it could be updated - you didn't post a > link to the

Re: PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

2003-07-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:46:02AM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > I wanted to bring this up a little later but since there is a somewhat related > thread I thought I might as well bring this now. Our default PPPd is extremely > outdated. The version in the distribution is a patched-up ve

Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

2003-07-11 Thread Dominic Marks
On 10/07/2003 21:45, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > Hi, > > Please see http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html > > "Real" PPPoE with a ethernet card connected with a ADSL Modem works. > > This problem is related with ISPs that supports *only* PPPoE protocol > with USB Modems (this c

PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

2003-07-10 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; I wanted to bring this up a little later but since there is a somewhat related thread I thought I might as well bring this now. Our default PPPd is extremely outdated. The version in the distribution is a patched-up version of Paul's PPP 2.3.5 which is maintained now at http://dp.samba.org/ppp

Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

2003-07-10 Thread Nuno Teixeira
Hi, Please see http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html "Real" PPPoE with a ethernet card connected with a ADSL Modem works. This problem is related with ISPs that supports *only* PPPoE protocol with USB Modems (this case Alcatel) that "emulates" ethernet with TUN/TAP devices.

Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

2003-07-10 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm confused.. FreeBSD has had full PPPoE support for about 4 years. there is also PPPoA support.. why do you think there is not? On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > Hello to all, > > I'm using FreeBSD for almost 4 years and I will continue with it because > I can't find better.

FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

2003-07-10 Thread Nuno Teixeira
Hello to all, I'm using FreeBSD for almost 4 years and I will continue with it because I can't find better. I subscribed to a ADSL connection in Portugal that supports only PPPoE (and not PPPoA). Almost everyone in Portugal uses only 2 modems (supported by ISPs): Siemens Santis USB and Alcatel