Re: PPPoE on openbsd

[James Phillips <dengue@deadly.org>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Chris Lawson wrote:

->Jonathan,
->
->I recently went through the fun of getting PPPoE working under OpenBSD, so
->here's what I did..
->
->the first version that worked for me is located at:
->http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~stras/pppoe.html
->and has a file called README.BSD which tells you all you need to know
->that's CSD specific.
->
->You'll need to get cozy with the pppd man page though, well, I had to to
->get it working.
->
->The guy who did all the BSD stuff Matt Robinson, has updated the code for
->OBSD, so you can get the new version here, which I haven't tried out as much:
->ftp://ftp.cs.yorku.ca/pub/matt/pppoe-alt-0.4.tar.gz
->
->The port redirecter that you'll need is located at the second URL, or you
->can grab it right from the NetBSD ports tree.
->
->Hope this helps you.
->
->Chris Lawson
->
->PS please set Outlook to post email in plain text be default, the other
->text (not sure what it is) doesn't always jive with other mail readers.
->
->At 11:26 AM 3/2/00 -0600, Jonathan Fortin wrote:
->>      Hello   Is it possible i can get documents on setting up pppoe on 
->>openbsd.   thanks  in advance,   regards,   Jonathan Fortin
->>Network  Administrator   Revelex Canada
->>6830 Park Avenue
->>Suite  209
->>Montreal, Qc
->>H3N-1W7   business: (514) 274-5120 ext 228
->>email: jfortin@revelex.com
->> 
->
->

You should give Jason Wrights PPPoE code a try, he's working on both
clients and servers and they are available at
http://www.thought.net/jason/pppoe . I haven't tried it, but you might
find it easier to install.

-j
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	james r phillips	<dengue@deadly.org>