[ale] kernel mode pppoe?

[Jim Philips]

The Web pages that I used to rely on for this seem to have disappeared. But 
there is a PPPoE mailing list at:

http://www.ipsec.org/email/pppoe/

On Monday 24 June 2002 05:23 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Stuffed Crust wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:58:06PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>Has anyone used the kernel mode pppoe available from roaring penquin?
> >>The docs indicate you must enable modules, but I prefer not to do so for
> >>a firewall.  Anyone done this?
> >
> > I've never used the kernel-mode PPPoE with the Roaring Pengiun client,
> > but I have used it with a patched copy of pppd.  Works quite well, I
> > might add.  :)
> >
> > You either need to have a development snapshot of pppd2.4.2, or apply a
> > patch to pppd2.4.1, plus the kernel module of course.
>
> Can the patch be applied to the kernel rather then using modules?
>
> > Here's the one I'm using:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.shaftnet.org/pub/rpms/redhat-7.x/i386/ppp-2.4.1-4pppoe.i386.rpm
> > or if you prefer,
> > ftp://ftp.shaftnet.org/pub/rpms/redhat-7.x/SRPMS/ppp-2.4.1-4pppoe.src.rpm
> > if you want to see the patches that are involved.
> >
> >  - Pizza


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