FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

[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.
> 
> 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 SpeedTouch 330 USB.
> 
> Linux people has already support to Alcatel USB modems with PPPoE
> connections and FreeBSD still lacks of PPPoE support.
> 
> I don't like Linux so, to solve my home network problem, I install a
> Windows machine to share the Internet (ooops!) across my LAN.
> 
> The new Speedtouch 1.2 beta2 driver (http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html),
> already support Bridging 1483 mode (PPPoE support) in pppoa3 but without
> use in FreeBSD.
> 
> Please read the following thread to see some solutions for implementing
> PPPoE in FreeBSD.
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/speedtouch@ml.free.fr/msg04514.html
> 
> For what you can see in this thread: 
> 
> "...that  task is  simply a  matter of  two or  three #ifdefs  for  each
> BSD flavor, but nobody seems volunteering to accomplish it."
> 
> I'm just a FreeBSD user not a programmer or hacker, so I can only help
> FreeBSD community asking you to try to implement PPPoE in FreeBSD so
> everyone uses it.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for your great work,
> 
> 		Nuno Teixeira
> 
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