[nycbug-talk] openbsd in kernel pppoe stability

[Okan Demirmen]

On Fri 2005.09.02 at 13:34 -0700, pete wright wrote:
> On 9/2/05, Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri 2005.09.02 at 08:04 -0700, pete wright wrote:
> > > On 9/1/05, bruno <bruno at loftmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > my current issues are with 3.7 running pppoe in kernel. It seems 
> > that
> > > > > covad is doing something wonky and resetting my connection 
> > throughout
> > > > > the day. There is a patch in -CURRENT (soon to be 3.8) that 
> > addresses
> > > > > this issue with the in-kernel pppoe implementation and seems to work
> > > > > well from what i've heard. I'm probably going to move to the 
> > userland
> > > > > implementation tonight to see how it goes.
> > > >
> > > > If you were considering upgrading, 3.8 is past beta and very nice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I was thinking about it, but since this is such a low powered device i 
> > will
> > > just wait for the official release rather than have to rebuild the 
> > source
> > > when things do go stable (and no I do not have another OpenBSD machine 
> > handy
> > > right now to build a work+kernel right now ;).
> > 
> > ack! compile what? use GENERIC and baseXX.tgz - everything just
> > works(tm).
> 
> 
> well if i was going to use -CURRENT i assumed one would have to according to 
> this link:
> 
> http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld
> 
> which seemed to suggest to me that if I was running release and wanted to 
> end up with -CURRENT I would install the latest snapshot and then fetch and 
> build current.

ok, i meant to say "use a snapshot" ;)

> in any event...i'm not running current on my firewall so this is all a moot 
> point.

but it's so easy and it works...why not? ;)

> and yes, post-3.7 pppoe(4) works much better in the scenerio where i had
> > to deploy pppoe.
> 
> 
> yea...guess i'll be waiting for it to release then.

release will be ~ november timeframe...if you can wait...

i'll stop pestering ... 

cheers,
okan