On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Darren Grant wrote: > On 13 Nov 2009, at 19:02, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > > >> Strangely enough Tom, ADSL hardware that does PPPoA is supported in >> 0.7. Really. >> >> > Because PCI ADSL cards do not require any special support for PPPoA as ATM is > the transport layer that is dealt with on the hardware of the card. The > system just needs to be able to support PPP as it would for a dial-up or > PPPoE device. There is no special support or drivers required for PPPoA based > modems. > > As I said there is no such thing as host based PPPoA as oA means ATM and > unless you had an ATM card installed in the system and an ADSL modem that had > a ATM port on it there is no way you could do PPPoA in software on the host. > There has never been any ADSL modem that provides an ATM connector on it. All > modems that work with PPPoA do so only on the wan side, the interface to the > host is either, Serial or Ethernet. So in terms of how a PCI ADSL Modem card > would work is that it will be presented in your hardware profile as either a > serial port (usually USB) or as a NIC. > > Being a designer if ADSL hardware for the UK market I can tell you that 100% > > Darren >
The Solos card presents as an Ethernet NIC in PPPoE mode and as an ATM NIC in PPPoA mode. See "man br2648" in the linux-atm package. -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
