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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to have one-to-many relation between PPPoE and PPP? Meaning one PPPoE session with many PPP sessions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My understanding is that there is a one-to-one relation between a PPPoE session and a PPP session. The reason I arrived at this conclusion is that the PPPoE protocol has two stages: discovery and a PPP stage. The only way to enter the
PPP stage is after sending a PADS packet. Checking the code, for processing PADR, the roaring penguin code allocs a session from the free list. Moreover there is a single pid for the pppd within the pppoe session.<o:p></o:p></p>
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