On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:12:32AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: L> The problem is, my provider does not provide specific service names, L> but it will accept anything i supply. So when i run the three ppp instances, L> they will all match, and the code in ng_pppoe.c will happily take the L> first reply as good. L> L> The only approach left is then implement some form of MAC filtering, L> e.g. overloading the 'service name' to specify the mac address of the L> modem i am interested in. L> There is a couple of ways to implement this, one is patching the L> receive path (ng_pppoe_rcvdata(), case PADO_CODE) to filter replies L> based on the source mac address, and the other one is to patch L> the code transmitting the PADI packet to replace the broadcast L> dst address with the unicast MAC taken from the "service name".
The second option I think is a violation of the protocol, so I suppose filtering on receive path is better. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
