PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

[Julian Elischer]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Fred Souza wrote:

> > The problem, as I see it, is that the only pppd that supports netgraph is mpd.
> 
>   I don't agree. Our ppp(8) also supports netgraph (I used to use it up
>   to 2 days ago, then I switched - maybe temporarily - to mpd for
>   testing). I use it to connect to my ADSL ISP, using PPPoE.

Well, ppp knows how to use the netgraph pppoe node
but it doesn't know how to use netgraph nodes in general..

Mpd can connect to any arbittrary netgraph node that you may
have previously configured in any arbitrary manner..
(I use this to make it run across certain tunnels etc.)