On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
>
> Yes. The boxes from Redback (www.redback.com) support this mode
> of operation, which is primarily for sane deployment of DSL over
> an infrastructure built on bridging. Alcatel DSL products, used
> by BellSouth and others, operate in this mode (see RFC 1483 section
> 4.2).
Well, not *ALL* the Alcatels (thank goodness PacBell hasn't figured this
out :-) )
If you have a grasp of DHCP, then PPPoE will look awfully familiar. There
is a fairly detailed RFC out on it, although it lacks in the philosophy
department which does influence your design.
I actually hacked userppp to talk to RedBacks (and even had development
gear to do it) about a year ago. That code is quite ugly and doesn't
belong to me anyway. I've itched to reimplement it after Brian's changes
to the lower-end device handling about 6 months ago since I had to make
nasty, nasty hacks. I don't think dialup worked afterwards and doubt it
ever would again on that code.
If someone wanted to pick it up, I'd really try to get a demo SMS-500 with
the appropriate firmware (AOS 2.2 or later) to hack it with. I can also
lend advice.
It took me 2 months to design & code it, and that was working part-time
through school.
Doug White
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