Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:52:55 +0200 From: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: What is PPPoed? Message-ID: <001001c42881$e3f234d0$050110ac@frodo64bit> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEIPFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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>Your wild guess makes no sense. >DSL lines are 24/7. >They are like leased line, with permanent connection. >Dailup service uses user ppp to 56k voice line style modem. This is not true. A friend of mine does not have a 24/7 DSL line. He needs to dial-in into his DSL connection before he has internet. Perhaps it does not exist in your country, or you are unaware of it, but I am sure that it does exists. Here is a quote from the first line of the pppoed man page: The pppoed utility listens to the given interface for PPP over Ethernet PPPoE) service request packets, and actions them by negotiating a ses- sion then invoking a ppp(8) program. I don't really find it that hard to understand though. It makes perfect sense with what I said. It uses PPP (Dial-in) over ethernet.(PPPoe) A modem does not use an ethernet line, as far as I know. (Modem is a simple telephone line, using RJ-11 connectors. Ethernet uses RJ-45 connectors) So it has to be a utility to dial into a permanent DSL line, since you can't dial into a cable modem. For a regular modem connection you just use the PPP utility. Jorn
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