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  From: Simon Hackett <simon@internode.com.au>
  To  : Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:35:48 +1030

Re: DSL routers question

DSL boxes are either bridges, or bridges with a router in the back of 
them. But at the DSL layer essentially they're just nifty media 
converters (well strictly, a super cheap ATM over copper switch).

Whether you need PPPoE depends on your DSL provider and their chosen 
network architecture. Some DSL providers use PPPoE to authenticate 
and access-control their customers. Some DSL providers use RFC1483 
bridging and assign their custoemrs direct, static IP addresses 
without needing PPPoE to be used at all.

Whether your DSL box has an embedded PPPoE client in it, or whether 
you (instead) bridge the frames to your Linux box and run a PPPoE 
client in there is entirely up to you (and technically equivalent 
from the networks' point of view).

Simon

>Hi List,
>
>Do the DSL  routers require the use of pppoe? If not how do they work?
>
>thanks
>Evan
>
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