I received the following positive news from Geoff Mottram regarding 
pppoe.  Hopefully, this will help folks on this list.


>X-From_: minaret@sprynet.com Fri May 26 12:30:38 2000
>From: "Geoff Mottram" <minaret@sprynet.com>
>To: "Jason Herber" <jherber@advance.net>,
>         "Edward Lauman" <elauman@interlynx.net>
>Subject: PPPoE client for NetBSD
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:29:55 -0400
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>
>I was looking for a PPPoE client for NetBSD and came across your
>discussion in the port-mac68k mailing list (which I don't subscribe to).
>I've ported an existing PPPoE client from Linux to NetBSD and thought
>you might be interested.  I've posted a message to netbsd-users but in
>case you don't subscribe to that list I've included my posting below.
>If you would pass on the information to others on the mac list I would
>appreciate it.
>
>Geoff Mottram
>minaret@sprynet.com
>
>----Original Posting----
>
>I have ported the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client to NetBSD 1.4.2.   As it
>requires pppd(8) version 2.3.7 or later, I have ported pppd 2.3.10 as
>well.  Everything you need can be found here:
>
>     http://home.sprynet.com/~minaret/pppoe/
>
>I don't know how these things operate but it would be great if the newer
>pppd code could somehow make its way into the general NetBSD
>distribution.
>
>I've been using the Linux version of the Roaring Penguin client for
>about a month and it works flawlessly.  The BSD port has been running
>well for me for the past few days so I wanted to get it out to any of
>you who could use it.  I've been in contact with Roaring Penguin and
>they are more than happy to incorporate the BSD changes into their
>source tree.  This will make it much easier to stay up to date with
>their latest releases.
>
>I haven't gotten the hang of making packages and I wouldn't know how to
>submit a package anyway.  If someone would point me in the right
>direction, I'll give it try.
>
>Geoff Mottram
>minaret@sprynet.com

-- Jason