* Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-22 17:37]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:39:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You must now stand corrected :-) > > > > In Britain (and probably the rest of Europe), that is precisely how ADSL is > > done - with ATM (rather than PPPoE, which is how it's done in North > > America). > > There are probably more ATM over ADSL installations in the world than there > > are Ethernet over ADSL connections! > > > > i've never seen PPPoA for consumer adsl here in germany. normally it's > PPPoE (T-Com, Arcor, Q-DSL, ...). indeed, early dsl modems from ECI > used by T-Com had both, an ATM-25 and an ethernet port but i think ATM > was disabled. have look at ebay germany for "T-DSL ECI".
it is all ATM on the provider side, ethernet just on the CPE. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
