On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote:Usually it does not, one just runs PPP over AAL5SNAP or AAL5VCMUX PVC.
BMS>On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:17:59PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: BMS>> Are you talking about running the phone line directly to the fbsd box BMS>> with no dsl modem? BMS> BMS>Yes. Also, PPPoA in FreeBSD is currently only implemented if you use ngatm, BMS>because of the signalling involved. RFC 1483 framing is a simple bolt-on BMS>to the existing HARP drivers, but those don't support xDSL PHYs.
Does PPPoA really need signalling? I tried to find any pointers to PPPoA
specification, but this seems to be not easy to find.
However most providers seem to go for RFC1483B because it practically eliminates
CPE configuration issues.
Pete
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