Yes, if ISP support pppoe and your adsl modem have ethernet interface,
it is unnecessary to run sppptul. However, if you use usb adsl modem or
your ISP just provide pppoa service, your adsl won't work in solaris. In
these cases, we must extend sppptul to support pppoa.

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 16:58, UNIX admin wrote:
> > Now solaris just supports ADSL with ethernet
> > interface, and we must
> > extend sppptun to support USB ADSL modem.
> 
> This has me confused. I have an ADSL "modem" (those are bridges really) at 
> home and I have the thing hooked up directly into my Solaris firewall. Except 
> configuring the default route and NAT to be the ADSL "modem", I didn't need 
> to fiddle with sppptun.
> 
> So I'm interested to learn more. In which scenarios would an sppptun 
> configuration be necessary with an ADSL EtherNet "modem"?
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