On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

In the long run, the right answer probably is to push the session management
out of the daemon and into the kernel.  Today the PPPoE code in the kernel
is only half-brained, it needs pppd to survive.

I would think pppd is the half-brained portion ;->

Placing control protocols in the kernel is plain wrong.

cheers,
jamal