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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