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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2003 02:55:10 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ?
Message-ID:  <20031004015510.GC658@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031002095224.L11328@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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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



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