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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:22:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ?
Message-ID:  <20031006121405.D41960@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <20031004015510.GC658@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
References:  <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> <20031001182507.GA24453@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20031004015510.GC658@saboteur.dek.spc.org>

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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
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harti brandt,
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