Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:22:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ? Message-ID: <20031006121405.D41960@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20031004015510.GC658@saboteur.dek.spc.org> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> <20031001182507.GA24453@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20031004015510.GC658@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote: BMS>On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:53:08AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: BMS>> Does PPPoA really need signalling? I tried to find any pointers to PPPoA BMS>> specification, but this seems to be not easy to find. BMS> BMS>I was probably half asleep when I wrote that answer :) it's been a stressful BMS>week. BMS>I should correct myself - more often than not ISPs just use PVCs. The userland BMS>PPP could probably be run on top of a device node exporting the PVC. What kind of device node would that need to be? A tty node? Something like ng_tty only the other way 'round? BMS>I prefer the idea of in-kernel ppp, though, for 1Mbps+ xDSL use. I suppose something like pppoed would do it by just stacking the pppoed node on top of an ng_atm node instead of ng_ether's orphan. How is PPPoE different from PPPoA? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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