[Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

[Tim Bishop]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:00:47AM +0000, Andrew Gordon wrote:
> Some routers (and maybe your device??) do give a way round this: they will 
> map PPPoA on the ADSL line to PPPoE on the ethernet side, allowing the 
> connection from the ISP to be terminated at the host, assigning the public 
> IP address directly to the host PC, like a traditional modem connection. 
> However, most routers don't do this, and those that do rarely make it 
> clear in their documentation: they all claim to do PPPoA and PPPoE, but 
> what they usually mean is that they can do one or the other of these on 
> the ADSL line (by PPPoE they mean PPPoE over an RFC1483 bridged link), and 
> not the configuration I want where there is PPPoE on the _local_ ethernet 
> piped to PPPoA on the ADSL side.   The only ones I have found so far are 
> the AVM "Fritz!" range, and also Alcatel/Thomson devices that can do a
> similar trick with the rather less satisfactory Microsoft PPTP instead of 
> PPPoE.
> 
> I'm aware that this problem doesn't apply in places where direct PPPoE 
> connections are widely available: here in the UK, 99% of ISP connections 
> are PPPoA only.

I'm using a Draytek Vigor 110 with my net5501:

http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor110.html

It's purely a PPPoA to PPPoE bridge. No setup require, you just plug it
in. Ok, it's another external box, but it works :-)

The card mentioned in this thread looks interesting if it does the same
thing but internally. Shame I didn't know about it a few weeks ago!

Tim.

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