From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:30:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmc58h$7gr$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090204123529.GA22980@revolver>
Momesso Andrea wrote:
> Looks like my ISP allows both PPPoE and PPPoA.
> After some superficial googling it looks like PPPoE is preferred over
> ethernet modems and PPPoA over USB ones... Is it true?
Nope. PPPoA is preferred generally, although not strongly so. The
difference should be very minor, but if it's for free, why not use it?
> By the way what I need to do is to enable CONFIG_ATM and
> CONFIG_PPPOATM in the kernel and reemerge ppp with the "atm" USE flag.
>
> Then I need to change " plugins_ppp1=( "pppoe") " into " plugins_ppp1=(
> "pppoa vc-encaps") " in my /etc/conf.d/net.
>
> Is that all I need to have PPPoA working?
Not sure, since I'm on a DSL NAT router/modem that connects to my ISP
with PPPoA and to the PC with ethernet. But you can just try and see.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 17:43 [gentoo-user] Different servers behind the same router Momesso Andrea
2009-02-03 17:52 ` Stroller
2009-02-03 18:35 ` Momesso Andrea
2009-02-03 23:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-04 1:13 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-02-04 1:21 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-04 1:58 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-02-04 2:25 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-04 12:35 ` Momesso Andrea
2009-02-04 13:30 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-04 4:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-02-03 20:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-03 18:47 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-03 19:06 ` Momesso Andrea
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