Nick

RFC1483 is Multiprotocol encapsulation over AAL5, ie. how to do
IP/IPX/Decnet/Bridging, etc over AAL5. RTC2364 just expands on 1483 for PPP
over AAL5.

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Hibma" <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To: "Brian Somers" <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc: <current-users@netbsd.org>; <tech-net@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: USB ADSL modems


>
> What's the RFC 1483 in
>
> USB: bridging (RFC1483) and PPPoA (RFC 2364)
>
> mentioned on
>
> http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/supfaqproto.htm#proto1
>
> Nick
>
> > > > BT)
> > > > and runs PPPoA.  There's some information about the modem on the
Alcatel
> > > > web site.  It's a strange-looking thing (a bit like the mini-sub
from
> > > > "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea").  Allegedly someone is working on
> > > > a Linux driver, but is there a chance it might Just Work with the
NetBSD
> > > > umodem driver?  Also, does NetBSD have support for PPPoA?
> > > >
> > > > BT say that only W98SE and W2000 are supported.  I don't posess
either
> > > > of
> > > > these pieces of shit, and have no intention of ever buying them, so
I'll
> > > > wait at least until it's known to work under Linux (and maybe the
price
> > > > has dropped a bit)
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in Germany ADSL works AFAIK with a network card and uses PPP over
> > > Ethernet. It should be the same here in Austria. Linux is reported to
run just
> > > fine with their PPPoE implementation, I do not know if NetBSD
currently
> > > supports it.
> >
> > NetBSD has a PPPoE implementation in the pkgsrc repository, but I
> > haven't used it.
> >
> > A PPPoE implmentation has just been committed to OpenBSD as an
> > external binary that works with ppp(8) (user-ppp).
> >
> > A PPPoE implementation using ppp(8) and netgraph has been in
> > FreeBSD since last November.
> >
> > > mike
> >
> > As for PPPoA - myself and Nick Hibma (a USB guy) have been
> > speculating about what these things actually are - now I see
> > the light :-0
> >
> > --
> > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>
<brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
> >       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
<brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> n_hibma@webweaving.org
> n_hibma@freebsd.org                                          USB project
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>