Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:14:47 +0300 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ? Message-ID: <3F7BDE77.90801@he.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20031002095224.L11328@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> <20031001181759.GA65157@pit.databus.com> <20031001182507.GA24453@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20031002095224.L11328@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Harti Brandt wrote: >On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > >BMS>On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:17:59PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: >BMS>> Are you talking about running the phone line directly to the fbsd box >BMS>> with no dsl modem? >BMS> >BMS>Yes. Also, PPPoA in FreeBSD is currently only implemented if you use ngatm, >BMS>because of the signalling involved. RFC 1483 framing is a simple bolt-on >BMS>to the existing HARP drivers, but those don't support xDSL PHYs. > >Does PPPoA really need signalling? I tried to find any pointers to PPPoA >specification, but this seems to be not easy to find. > > Usually it does not, one just runs PPP over AAL5SNAP or AAL5VCMUX PVC. However most providers seem to go for RFC1483B because it practically eliminates CPE configuration issues. Petehome | help
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