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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
