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Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ?
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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.

Pete