The archive includes der Mouse's PPPoE package. I've emailed der Mouse
recently and he says the package is broken. It did work at one time,
albeit not well (i.e. 20kb/s) but several people applied patches and
subsequently broke the package. I don't know if that is what the problem
is, but it does suggest that the package is rather unusable. I was
planning to take a look at the code and start on a rewrite of the package
that would run in kernel mode only (much faster). I am a programmer, but
being new to NetBSD, I would need some answers about the networking system
it uses (I know it's based on 4.4BSD's networking model, but I need some
more specific information), if you or anyone you know can help me
understand how it works, I would be willing to give the rewrite a try. Ed

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Jason Herber wrote:

> >Erik,
> >
> >I'm kaving some trouble installing the netbsd_fw.tgz file: the installer
> >barfs with an error of type 1. Under MacOS, Netscape downloads it as a
> >SimpleText file. The file ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz downloads as a "tar" file,
> >though.
> 
> I emailed Erik on this, and he found that the archive was corrupt. 
> He posted a non-corrupt archive so re-download if you haven't already.
> 
> 
> Now, I have a problem of my own:
> 
> I successfully downloaded, and installed this archive to my IIci. 
> Followed Erik's (excellent) instructions - edited the conf files et 
> al.  All seems well, except that I cannot get a pppoe session going.
> 
> Here's what I get:
> # pppoe ae1 my_login@my_isp.tld
> pppd: unrecognized option 'noipx'
> May 16 08:27:28 macbsd pppd[171]: unrecognized option 'noipx'
> May 16 08:27:28 macbsd pppd[171]: unrecognized option 'noipx'
> pppd version 2.3.11
> Usage pppd [ options ], where options are:
> ...
> ...
> See pppd(8) for more options.
> 
> where "..." are usage options.
> 
> After crashing the system trying to grep the /etc tree for noipx, I'm 
> at a loss.  Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- Jason
> 
>