Re: In-kernel PPPoE

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:32:36 +0200
on 05/12/2010 22:30 Julian Elischer said the following:
> On 12/5/10 9:30 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:14:21PM -0500, Pierre Lamy wrote:
>>> Just curious about why the in-kernel PPPoE interface was never ported
>>> from NetBSD or OpenBSD, to FreeBSD. Does anyone know why?
>> Maybe because everyone who cares about in-kernel uses the FreeBSD
>> in-kernel ng_pppoe via mpd?
>>
>>>  From using it for a long time in OpenBSD I always found it quite stable
>>> and easy to use.
>> The same is true with mpd/ng_pppoe.
> while I like mpd, I should point out that the regular 'in source' ppp that comes
> with
> freebsd also uses the in-kernel netgraph pppoe module.   I use it 24 x 7 on my
> gateway
> as I never got around to installing mpd and it "did the job".

BTW, there is a rumor that mpd may become an 'in source' program too.


-- 
Andriy Gapon
Received on Sun Dec 05 2010 - 22:32:41 UTC

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