[RP-PPPoE] What is the real role of rp-pppoe

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:56:39 -0300
Lucas Clemente Vella <lvella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since it is somewhat cumbersome to cross-compile and install software
> in the resource-limited ARM computer, specially if it has lots of
> shell scripts to be installed through the filesystem and little
> support to cross-compiling, as it seems to be the case of rp-pppoe, I
> tried the solution that requires pppd only.

The PPPoE plugin that ships with pppd *is* part of RP-PPPoE.  The PPP
developers have forked it from an older version of RP-PPPoE, so it may
have bugs that are fixed in the latest RP-PPPoE.  Conversely, the
RP-PPPoE version may have bugs that are not in the version that ships
with PPP because the PPP developers do not communicate their changes
back to me.

> [...] what it does that pppd can't do and what is it relation with pppd?

See the relevant man pages.

Regards,

David.