From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4177] New: Please consider adding possibility to have multiple PPPoE sessions with different MAC addresses Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:26:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20050206122604.74a41796.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mh+kernel-bugzilla@zugschlus.de To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 04:08:01 -0800 From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4177] New: Please consider adding possibility to have multiple PPPoE sessions with different MAC addresses http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4177 Summary: Please consider adding possibility to have multiple PPPoE sessions with different MAC addresses Kernel Version: 2.6.current, 2.4.current Status: NEW Severity: low Owner: acme@conectiva.com.br Submitter: mh+kernel-bugzilla@zugschlus.de This wishlist item is mostly relevant to German users. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom has a near monopoly regarding DSL connections to residential homes. They are, however, required, to resell their network to other ISPs which has led to a rather interesting combination of Internet tariffs and feature sets available via Deutsche Telekom T-DSL connections. Technical Basis for the T-DSL customer interface is PPPoE over a bridged ATM session, so it is technically possible to have multiple PPPoE sessions on the same line, allowing concurrent use of more than a single ISP which might be interesting with special interest services like streaming, fixed IP address and/or flat rate. However, Deutsche Telekom technically forbids multiple PPPoE sessions originating from a single MAC address, so one needs multiple network interfaces to originate the PPPoE sessions from. Sven Geggus has a patch against rp-pppoed, which allows to fake the sending MAC address for additional PPPoE sessions, circumventing the artificially introduced limitation of the T-DSL connection. The patch is available on http://geggus.net/sven/rp-pppoe-fakemac.diff Please consider adding that possibility to the kernel PPPoE code as well. Greetings Marc ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.