On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:06:21 +0200
Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:57:00AM -0400, César Catrián C. wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:22:05 +0200
> > Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:07:38AM -0400, César Catrián C. wrote:
> > > > ! /usr/pkg/sbin/pppoa2 -vpi 8 -vci 32 -v 0 -b > /dev/null 2>&1
> > > 
> > > Does this reset your modem?
> > > 
> > > Martin
> > 
> > This daemon actually talks PPPoA to the Speedtouch ADSL modem, and do attach 
> > itself to the tap(4) device, offering an interface to be used by PPP.
> 
> If it talks PPPoA to the modem, then why would it offer a PPPoE interface
> instead of directly a PPP interface?  This looks completely bogus.

The pppoa2 program talks only PPPoA to the modem_run program (the USB modem 
driver), and at the same time it offers an ethernet like interface for use with 
our PPP implementation for the authentication, etc.

net/speedtouch out of the box uses net/userppp to work, and userppp accept the 
output of pppoa2 piped as a device in the config file. But I wanted to use 
native PPP.

César