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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Manuel Kasper wrote: > 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. ;) Actually, from the SpeedTouch website, it appears that the newer models *do* support PPPoE, although I'm not sure that's an available firmware upgrade for the older ones. BTW, regarding the PPTP conflict, from what I could tell from the limited MPD docs available on the net, it looks like it *is* trying to support both incoming and outgoing PPTP sessions, hence the listener on port 1723. So there's probably some way to configure one instance of the PPTP module for both uses. If not, there may be a way to disable the incoming side on the client instance. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Frans J King wrote: > 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 AFAIK the USB looks like an Ethernet NIC to the host, which means that in order to relay PPPoA, you need some means of tunneling the PPP over Ethernet, which traditionally meant PPTP, though it appears that PPPoE can also be used nowadays. So you *are* talking about tunnels, even if you don't know it. :-) If the USB interface looked like a serial port, that would make the PPPoA relay case simpler, but it would make the bridging case more difficult (if not impossible). > 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. M0n0wall already has PPP support, and there's no need for a "SpeedTouch driver". The issue is USB support. Unless your PC is out of slots, you could add a $10 NIC to hook up the modem. Fred Wright |