On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, William Anderson wrote:
Matt Causey wrote:
[snip]
This is when I learned that Tiscali does -not- support PPPoE, but rather
PPPoA. O'course, my Cisco PIX only supports the more flexible PPPoE
method. Grr.
Is this the case with all ISPs here in the UK? Anyone have an old Cisco
ATM device sitting around? :)
Welcome to the UK, and Scotland in particular :)
Sorry, pretty much all UK ADSL uses PPPoA, and the ATM part is for the actual
backhaul out of the exchanges. You won't need any ATM CPE gear to connect.
That's what I thought, I.e. that you might only get PPPoE when an ISP has
say taken advantage of LLU. But I have now been told by two different
people that PPPoE can work, and a quick Google seems to reinforce this:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/1381-pppoe-authentication-in-final-pilot-to-providers.html
http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=185/81
You would of course need an ADSL presentation (E.g. G.DMT) and I'm
guessing PPPoE might not work on all exchanges.
Andrew
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