In-kernel PPPoE

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:30:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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 

No surprise that you like it ;-)

> 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".

Same for me if the machine's power is good enough, but my Router is a
tiny FreeBSD/ARM, which has trouble to keep up with load if running
traffic via userland.
I use mpd together with ipfw nat to keep traffic in kernel.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.