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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ?
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:53:08AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> Does PPPoA really need signalling? I tried to find any pointers to PPPoA
> specification, but this seems to be not easy to find.

I was probably half asleep when I wrote that answer :) it's been a stressful
week.
I should correct myself - more often than not ISPs just use PVCs. The userland
PPP could probably be run on top of a device node exporting the PVC.
I prefer the idea of in-kernel ppp, though, for 1Mbps+ xDSL use.

BMS