On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Brian Somers wrote:
> > David Gilbert wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got some real $$$ available to encourage someone to make PPPoE
> > > work efficiently enough on the FreeBSD platform to handle a
> > > substantial number of users. Is anyone interested?
> >
> > Brian? ;^)
>
> There may be something real in the pipeline now. Julian E (cc'd)
> reckons he can implement a netgraph node pretty quickly, and if I'm
> interpreting the way netgraph works correctly, I could implement a
> talk-to-netgraph ppp(8) device in a matter of minutes (``cp udp.[ch]
> netgraph.[ch]'', tweak netgraph_Create()).
>
> The use of netgraph removes the requirement for the bpf device which
> would be a little bit too hackish. It also provides the ability to
> implement a PPPoE server - something that eluded me in the bpf case.
I'm working on it as we speak..
actually I'm reading through the several Linux implementations
and looking at docs, (after a quick hackish prototype test).
I just want to see how other people are aproaching the problem before I
leap. One really interesting idea was a daemon that
openned a pty (master) and supplied the other end to ppp.
it then reads and writes using linux's raw sockets.
(basically no mods to ppp, and worked with kernel ppp too)
Another introduces a type AF_PPPOE, and alters kernel-ppp
to specifically know about PPPoE, and connect to it.
I'll be doing something different but I probably won't have it ready for a
day or so. (still lotso stuff to read).
Brian, for more on netgraph, in case you haven't seen them there are
man pages available through
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
and I THINK the latest mpd code has commented out netgraph interface code.
if not, I'm sure Archie would send you the files.
julian
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