Subject: Re: in-kernel PPPoE server (include patch)
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@engine.ca>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/12/2003 09:56:51
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:35:50AM -0400, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:
> > I implement in-kernel PPPoE server code.
> > Usage:
> > 	ifconfig pppoe0 create
> > 	ifconfig pppoe0 link0
> > 	pppoectl -e xxx0 pppoe0
> > 	pppoectl pppoe0 hisauthproto=chap hisauthname=NAME hisautosecret=SECRET
> > 	ifconfig pppoe0 MYADDRESS remote REMOTEADDRESS
> > comments?
> 
> Look good, however let me add my 2 cents.  Can the "pppoectl" argument
> keywords be changed as follows?
> 
> 	hisauthproto  => peerauthproto
> 	hisauthname   => peerauthname
> 	hisauthsecret => peerauthsecret
> 
> since "peer" is a more accurate term that is commonly used with PPP,
> then that "his" term, and after all not all of us are guys.

It is supposed to oppose to 'my*' args. It could be changed to
'itsauthproto' and so on, since anyway I never met either a PPPoE
server or a PPPoE client in person, and I'm not intimate enough with
the one that lies under my desk.

Quentin Garnier.