> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russell King
> - ARM Linux
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:28 PM
> To: David Milburn
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pppoe in ARM environment
>
>
> David Milburn writes:
> > Has anyone had success with pppoe in the ARM environment (ebsa285)?
> >
> > If so, would you point me to the software pieces needed for pppoe?
>
> Haven't tried it, but I've built it for the ebsa110. I'd be interested
> in hearing about your experiences with it though.
We're (David Milburn and I) implementing a small router to be interposed between a DSL
line and a small local Ethernet LAN. Our box will be the PPPoE server for the LAN, of
course.
Our effort is based on the "ppp-2.4.0-pppoe2" package from Michal Ostrowski's work at
"http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/". It's being cross-compiled to the ARM
platform using an X86-based Red Hat system to a 2.4.0 kernel without DEVFS.
In "pppoed" I've found numerous instances of strings without NULL terminators being
copied from malloc'ed memory by simple "strcpy(3)" routines. Sometimes there is a
NULL picked up from the trash after the malloc'ed meory, sometime not. Needless to
say, this greatly increases pppoed's tendancy to be flakey on non-X86 hosts. I'm
working through these now.
I haven't yet gotten the pppoed daemon to successfully invoke the pppd daemon. The
pppoed will negotiate a session with another Linux host running Roaring Penguin's
PPPoE client, but it doesn't correctly spawn a pppd session yet. "Real soon now" (tm)
though.
Invoking the pppd daemon manually does attempt to start a session: it negotiates the
LCP's but gives up trying to determine the IP addresses. I may have a problem with my
options file(s).
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