2009/317 Solaris PPP/PPPoE Updates

Jonathan Adams jonathan.adams at sun.com
Fri May 22 09:26:39 PDT 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:14:01AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> 
> The additions for this feature are a new "-s" option for the
> sppptun(1M) command:
> 
> 	sppptun plumb [-s <sap>] [<protocol> <device>]
> 
> This allows the user to specify a particular SAP (Ethertype) value in
> hexadecimal to be used for each plumbed stream.  The more common way
> to configure PPPoE, though, is through the /etc/ppp/pppoe.if file,
> which is used to run sppptun at boot time.  This file currently takes
> one interface name per line.  It will be updated to use this syntax:
> 
> 	if-name [session-SAP [discovery-SAP]]
> 
> where session-SAP and discovery-SAP are used to set the SAP values for
> sppptun.  The problem described in the original bug report could now
> be handled by using:
> 
> 	e1000g0 3c13 3c12

Why are there two SAPs here, but only one on the sppptun command line?

Cheers,
- jonathan




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