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Re: ADSL + pppoe(rp-pppoe) on LINUX + FREEBSD
- To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad(at-nospam)benyossef.com>
- Subject: Re: ADSL + pppoe(rp-pppoe) on LINUX + FREEBSD
- From: Dani Arbel <darbel(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:12:42 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Avishay Aton <cgadsl6(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <3BDF0555.433118E6@benyossef.com>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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.
Dani
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Avishay Aton wrote:
> > has anyone sucesseded to configure ADSL with pppoe.
> > pptp work , but i wan to ry another methods.
> > if not , what is the different between ISRAEL configuration(BEZEQ)
> > and abroad(their , you can!).
>
> In short - it won't work. Bezeq has chosen to work with pptp and not
> pppoe so it's simply not supported.
> You can do it "abroad" simply because Telcos abroad (some of them) chose
> pppoe instead.
> As a matter of fact, some of the xDSL providers abroad work with a
> "bridged" configuration where there is no need for any tunneling
> protocol at all - the DSL unit simply looks like a bridge (or Ethernet
> switch) to the computer, much like the cable expreiment in Israel does
> today.
>
> It's a matter of choice by xDSL provider. that's all.
>
> Gilad.
>
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