On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aviram Jenik wrote: > > AFAIK if your MERKAZYIA supports pppoe (most of them do now), you should be ok > > As far as I learned about this - PPPoE vs. PPTP has nothing to do with > the telco's exchange. PPPoE and PPTP are used only between the computer > and the modem, once the data reaches the modem it (the modem) tucks it > into PPPoA (PPP over ATM) and sends it into Bezeq's ATM cloud. > > Is Jess around to approve/deny this? >
IIRC the modem connects to the local MERKAZYIA (DSLAM if my memory serves me) using atm (cells) protocol, which is then routed over an atm line to the provider. Over that ATM you encapsulate the data in one of several methods. The ones I remember are PPPoE, PPPoA and Bridged Ethernet (I belive the last one, at list in the 2.4.17 days needed a kernel patch, don't remeber seeing it in current official kernel though). I am not sure if bezeq actually has anything to do with these or whether they are dependent on the provider (iirc the second). I think that all bezeq cares about are the vpn/vcn (the virtual path and virtual conection) which states where the connection is routed. > > with _all_ of the ADSL routers out there. I heard of many people that bought > > pppoe-capable devices and all of them worked here. pptp is a totally > > different mess, though. > > Ah, that's good news then. > > Would love to hear more than anecdotal evidence, though. > > Cheers, > > --Amos > > (I keep having sort of a deja-vu from the SLIP vs. PPP days - PPTP > sounds like the ad-hoc hack that SLIP used to be back in the old days, > and people couldn't understand why I bother with PPP when SLIP is so > much simpler). > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
