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RE: ADSL + pppoe(rp-pppoe) on LINUX + FREEBSD



of course not. the tunnel is meant to bring you to the point where you are supplied the ip. it is like a regular
dial-up. the only difference is that the tunnel is needed to jump over the various phsyical barriers which should not be the concern of the user.
So, i have two answers. If the ISP don't have the required hardware then the ip is supplied on the redback(using predetermined ip pools) because it is serving as the end point on behalf of the ISPs that don't have the proper hardware(if i remember correctly i think that it was Zoltrix, but i am not sure).
If the ISP do have the correct hardware, he can supply the ip himself, but i cannot be sure if he can pull the tunnel to his machine or if it remains on the redback.

This is what i gathered from the few months i am using adsl, and from my discussions with isps. i would appreciate comments from confirmed sources. as you can see there are many holes in the description,
and many people assume many things.

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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On Behalf Of Gilad Ben-Yossef
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:55 PM
To: Dani Arbel
Cc: Avishay Aton; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: ADSL + pppoe(rp-pppoe) on LINUX + FREEBSD




Dani Arbel wrote:

> Avishay,
> If you have an Alcatel unit you could, on your own risk, try to configure
> it to use pppoe. It is more or less pointless, as it is just another kind
> of tunnel. The only reasoning is if you need to hook up a system that has
> no pptp but has pppoe.


Intersting question: Does the PPTP tunnel end on the ADSL modem, or is 
it "continued" to the DSLAM? or even to the Redback servers?

Anyone know?

Gilad.


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