From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [Bug 4177] New: Please consider adding possibility to have multiple PPPoE sessions with different MAC addresses Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:53:31 -0200 Message-ID: <420683CB.2010205@conectiva.com.br> References: <200502061207.j16C7UOB009882@fire-1.osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Networking Team To: mostrows@speakeasy.net In-Reply-To: <200502061207.j16C7UOB009882@fire-1.osdl.org> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org bugme-daemon@osdl.org escreveu: > 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 the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. > >