What is PPPoed?

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, JJB wrote:

First of all: Sorry, I think I was talking nonsense:
I am running a DSL connection which uses the kind of protocol
that is called PPPoE and which is managed by ppp . ppp either
needs netgraph (default) or pppoed (alternatively). Since
netgraph is built into the kernel by default nowadays, you don't
have to worry about either.

Uli.

> If you do not use it directly, then why is there rc.conf statements
> to enable it just like you would enable user ppp?
> Pppoed_enable="YES"
>
> It's more than a behind the scenes module.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [mailto:root at pukruppa.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:33 PM
> To: Jorn Argelo
> Cc: Barbish3 at adelphia.net; questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What is PPPoed?
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Jorn Argelo wrote:
>
> > I believe it's dialup service for DSL lines (Point to Point
> Protocol over
> > ethernet daemon? Just a wild guess though)
> Yes it is. But you don't use it directly, it is a part of the ppp
> "package".
>
> Uli.
> > So if you have a DSL line which
> > requires the user to dial in, you'll need PPPoed. Otherwise, if
> your ISP
> > gives you an peminent IP address, you can just set your interface
> to DHCP or
> > anything else the ISP requires.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jorn
> >
> > On Thursday 22 April 2004 15:11, JJB wrote:
> > > I read the man pppoed, but that is so cryptic I got nothing out
> of
> > > it.
> > >
> > > What is the purpose of PPPoed?
> > >
> > > Who are the typical users?
> > >
> > > How is this different than using ppp with
> > > 'set device PPPoE:XXX' in the ppp.conf
> > >
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