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Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> Looks like my ISP allows both PPPoE and PPPoA. |
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> After some superficial googling it looks like PPPoE is preferred over |
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> ethernet modems and PPPoA over USB ones... Is it true? |
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Nope. PPPoA is preferred generally, although not strongly so. The |
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difference should be very minor, but if it's for free, why not use it? |
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> By the way what I need to do is to enable CONFIG_ATM and |
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> CONFIG_PPPOATM in the kernel and reemerge ppp with the "atm" USE flag. |
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> Then I need to change " plugins_ppp1=( "pppoe") " into " plugins_ppp1=( |
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> "pppoa vc-encaps") " in my /etc/conf.d/net. |
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> Is that all I need to have PPPoA working? |
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Not sure, since I'm on a DSL NAT router/modem that connects to my ISP |
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with PPPoA and to the PC with ethernet. But you can just try and see. |
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