In-kernel PPPoE

[David Rhodus]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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


Does mpd work in -current ? Last tried I, netgraph had problems with mpd.