Darren Grant wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2009, at 15:57, Darrick Hartman wrote:
> 
>> Tom,
>>
>> You'll need to tell us what VPN is being used.  Several VPN's can use 
>> certificates to authenticate.
>>
>> How does PPPoA differ from PPPoE?
>>
>> Darrick
>>
>> Tom Chadwin wrote:
>>> Anyone thought about these?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tom Chadwin
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> First request: PPPoA - is this possible in software? Most ADSL in the
>>>> UK is PPPoA, so I have to have routers as well as Astlinux boxes. Or
>>>> am I looking at hardware for this?
> 
> It is impossible to do PPPoA in software as the physical interface is 
> Ethernet and there is no such thing as a modem that has a physical ATM 
> interface. All ADSL Modems and Routers use PPPoA to connect to the WAN 
> interface and in the case of Ethernet routers simply provide an IP address 
> using DHCP.
> 
> If however you want to avoid the NAT included in an ADSL router you can use 
> something like the X-Modem M3 that will forward the external IP address to 
> the Astlinux box.


I believe the Solos card that Philip added to trunk (and 0.7) will 
support this.

http://www.traverse.com.au/productview.php?product_id=116

There may be single port cards that may work as well.

Darrick


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