Subject: Re: ADSL: PPP over ATM support
To: Ernst du Toit <ernstdt@ihug.co.nz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/29/2001 21:55:22
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:07PM +1300, Ernst du Toit wrote:
> Is there support in NetBSD land for any ADSL Modems that do PPP over
> ATM?
> Or am I stuck with an ADSL router to do the hardwork?
> 
> The reason I ask is that the billing conditions in my neck of the woods
> does not encourage being connected to the network while idle. 
> 
> So I'd like to implement an on demand link and I can't think of a clever
> method to control an external router - apart from dropping power to the
> device :)

The driver for the Alcatel USB ADSL modem (it's in pkgsrc) does some
kind of ppp over ATM. I don't know of anything else.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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