On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> James Andrewartha wrote:
> []
> > > I understand it's all workarounds, easily doable but maybe not as elegant
> > > as possible.
> > 
> > In my case the workaround is to use a separate router running OpenWRT to
> > manage the PPPoE connection. The fact that workarounds exist doesn't change
> > the fact it's a valid bug, albeit one that's very difficult to fix given the
> > current architecture of pppd.
> 
> Well, the patch is simple enough really.

Really? How do you work around the fact that the unit number is used as 
the primary identifer throughout the code?

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