Re: Hardware needed for home network
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 11:19 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Tixy a écrit :
> >
> > The server uses PPPoE to talk to the modem, which translates this into
> > PPPoA to get to my IPSs equipment.
>
> Are you sure of this ? Isn't your modem rather working as a plain
> ethernet bridge, just transparently forwarding the PPPoE traffic between
> its ADSL and ethernet ports ?
In the UK, its definitely PPPoA to the exchange, and the modem spec says
it provides a "PPPoE to PPPoA bridge".
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