Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:19:37 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Slightly off topic]: PPPoA Message-ID: <20020212141937.A1783@goku.kasby> In-Reply-To: <009001c1b3be$e2771e20$6401a8c0@gav.itworks.com.au>; from gavin@itworks.com.au on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:14:56PM %2B1100 References: <009001c1b3be$e2771e20$6401a8c0@gav.itworks.com.au>
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--1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:14:56PM +1100, Gavin Cameron wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > The ADSL ISP I'm looking to move to uses PPP over ATM. >=20 > My current ISP uses PPPoE which works great with FreeBSD userland ppp. > I pretty sure that my modem is operating in bridged mode with FreeBSD doi= ng > all the PPPoE work. >=20 > I beleive my modem, an Alcatel Speed Touch Home, can handle both PPPoA > and PPPoE. >=20 > Now, part of the manual says... >=20 > PPPoA > The other method to get in touch with the SP over the DSL line is PPPoA. > > PPPoA-to-PPTP Relaying > Similar to Bridged PPPoE this requires installation of a PPTP > dial-in application (*) on your PC(s). > (*) Most popular OSs have a PPTP dial-in application installed, e.g. > Microsoft > Dial-Up Networking, or support PPTP Tunneling software to be installed. >=20 > I notice that there's a port called pptpclient-1.0 with a description of > "PPTP client for establishing a VPN link with an NT server". >=20 > There seems to be a lot more to PPPoA than PPPoE and I'm a little confuse= d. >=20 > Can anyone give me any pointers to getting PPPoA working through my exter= nal > ADSL modem, which is connected to my box via ethernet, under FreeBSD 4.5? >=20 > Thanks very much in advance, > Gavin >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 > end of the original message Read the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html The only hardware supported is the Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem. Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8aRZpfsM3XxZOsXsRAj1ZAKCE3Hv4Fy5fpaiK9IuZ9a55nhTzDACg0sar mw+ISJ5pXzEOjK9HRL0aaxw= =hBLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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