Re: [RFC] ADSL: Experimental PPPoE support

[Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 21:38 +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
>> This is a first cut at experimental PPPoE support for ADSL devices.
>> There are several shortcuts and the code is ugly, but it works so
>> it can be used as a strawman to improve upon.
>>
>> Happily waiting for comments / testing / suggestions :)
>
> I rebased the 'adsl' branch to git master and wrote some code to talk
> the ioctls directly instead of using br2684ctl.  As Dave Woodhouse
> pointed out, br2684ctl isn't that complicated so we might as well just
> talk to the kernel.  However, I don't have an ADSL connection to test
> with (I only have a modem for basic hardware detection support) so if
> anyone can test out the code on the 'adsl' branch that would be great.
> Make sure to run NM with "--log-level=debug" or to set "level=debug" in
> the [logging] section of NetworkManager.conf so we can more easily debug
> any failures.

Thanks :)

I will try to test it today and also provide ubuntu packages for other people
to test more easily as well.

Greetings,
Pantelis