IPv4 to IPv6...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:29:08PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Perhaps I should mention that my discussion in this thread has been  
> coloured by my experiences in working with Bell/Sympatico ADSL at  
> customer sites.  My experience with them has mostly been to connect  
> industrial grade routers to ADSL.  Bell likes to supply a modem that  
> will not work easily with those routers as they're configured to make  
> things "easy" for customers who might not know how to configure for  
> PPPoE.  I have, on occasion, had a real struggle to get them to supply  
> the appropriate equipment, which is a basic ADSL modem that relied on  
> the attached device (computer, router etc.) to log onto the ADSL  
> service, instead of the modem doing it.  A modem like that would work  
> fine with the WRT modem as described.

That's what Bell provides these days.  It used to be they supplied nice
simple ADSL modems and it was up to the end user's PC or other equipment
to take care of PPPoE.  They used to provide PPPoE connection manager
software for windows users.  As far as I recall the PPPoE support in
Linux was originally done by someone in Ontario that wanted to connect
to Bell's new ADSL service (after they started converting away from the
old Nortel proprietary system).  That was in the late 90s.  Had the
modems back then had built in routers there would probably have been a
lot less need for PPPoE support in linux.

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Len Sorensen
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