FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

[Peter Elsner]

I don't know what version of FreeBSD you are using, but PPPoE
has been available on FreeBSD for quite some time.

A quick search on Google with "PPPoE on FreeBSD" pulled up dozens of
sites that show how-to's on PPPoE with FreeBSD.

Peter


At 09:06 PM 7/10/2003 +0000, you 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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