Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-12 Thread fooler
- Original Message - From: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fooler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Julian Elischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "M. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:13 PM Subject

Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-12 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:59:52PM +0800, fooler wrote: > >>set speed sync > > > >And how does that change the pppoe ethernet frames? > > nothing change and still the same... ethernet frames are at layer 2 while > synchronization (either asynchronous or synchronous) is at layer 1... > synchronou

Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-12 Thread fooler
- Original Message - From: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fooler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Julian Elischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "M. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:32 PM Subject:

Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-12 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:27:00AM +0800, fooler wrote: > >what the heck is synchronous pppoe? we connect to pppoe via ethernet so > >it is already synchronous (?) > > set speed sync And how does that change the pppoe ethernet frames? ___ freebsd-net@f

Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-11 Thread fooler
- Original Message - From: "Julian Elischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:49 AM Subject: Re: PPPoE question. M. Parsons wrote: Hello, I was wondering if the freebsd kernel supports

Re: PPPoE question.

2006-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
M. Parsons wrote: Hello, I was wondering if the freebsd kernel supports synchronous pppoe? I currently use LInux and I use synchronous pppoe (the n_hldc line discipline module), and I find that if I have synchronous off, network efficiency is not what its supposed to be. what the heck is s

PPPoE question.

2006-04-11 Thread M. Parsons
Hello, I was wondering if the freebsd kernel supports synchronous pppoe? I currently use LInux and I use synchronous pppoe (the n_hldc line discipline module), and I find that if I have synchronous off, network efficiency is not what its supposed to be. Didnt find it anywhere mentioned in the ha

Re: Brian: pppoe question.

2002-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
yep I may want to put a 'pseudo' interface down three instead of a real one, and tunnel it to somewhere else.. :-) On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Brian Somers wrote: > > Brian, would it be possible to specify to ppp, an arbitrary node/hook on > > which to attach the pppoe node? > > Just to see if I unde

Re: Brian: pppoe question.

2002-01-24 Thread Brian Somers
> Brian, would it be possible to specify to ppp, an arbitrary node/hook on > which to attach the pppoe node? Just to see if I understand, do you mean to connect to ``something else'' besides [NIC]:orphan ? - so that another node can be put in the chain ? The netgraph code on the cvs NETGRAPH b

Brian: pppoe question.

2002-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Brian, would it be possible to specify to ppp, an arbitrary node/hook on which to attach the pppoe node? (instead of, say, xl0: I'd want to hook to etf0:pppoehook (which may have been set up beforehand by a script) (maybe a 'hookname' variable that is "orphan" by default..) may also allow other