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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:31:30 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: User Ernie <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>
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Subject: Re: PCI ADSL card and PPPoA
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:38:58AM +1000, User Ernie wrote:
> I found this sentence in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/atm.c:
> 
>  "PPPoA:if:vpi.vci expected\n", p->name.full);
> 
> That sort of gives me the syntax, I know my vpi and vci are 8 and 35, should
> I be setting the interface to ng0  or pls0 which is the real interface in
> ifconfig?

Yup. Try pls0. /usr/sbin/ppp's PPPoA syntax keyword expects a NATM device and
vpi.vci tuple corresponding to the PVC where your ISP is using PPPoA
encapsulation. it only supports AAL5 at this time.

BMS