FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

From: Nuno Teixeira (nunotex_at_pt-quorum.com)
Date: 07/10/03

  • Next message: Julian Elischer: "Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)" 
    Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:06:21 +0000
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    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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