Sorry I seem to have confused some people - I'm not talking about PPTP
tunnels but Point to Point dial-up ADSL. To connect to my ISP I use a
SpeedTouch 330 ADSL modem. This is connected to USB. There exists both
for Linux and BSD a user mode driver that handles all the PPP over ATM
stuff through PPP. I was wondering how difficult it would be to modify
m0n0wall to install PPP and also the Speedtouch driver and whether
m0n0wall would then recognize the interface.

Have a look at http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ and
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/speedtouch/spe
edtouch/doc-bsd/INSTALL?rev=1.2

Specifically the driver requires USB, ugen and ppp to be compiled into
the kernel. I don't know whether m0n0wall has this.

Regards,

Frans


-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Kasper [mailto:mk at neon1 dot net] 
Sent: 10 July 2003 21:30
To: Fred Wright
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Speedtouch ADSL modems

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Fred Wright wrote:

> Don't you mean PPTP?  AFAIK the STs don't support PPPoE, which is too
bad
> since it would avoid the client/server PPTP conflict that another user
is

Yes, sorry, I confused them again. ;)

> I'd only use USB for networking as a last resort, if for no other
reason
> than the latency (though it's not *quite* so significant on a
relatively
> slow use like a cable or DSL modem).

Me too. I don't like it, there's just too much protocol magic involved
with it for use with things that should stay up for weeks or even months
without giving problems.

- Manuel

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