From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUhpY-0006Y3-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38DADE0574; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189B8E0574 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C5B64A29 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:30:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.455 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.455 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.144, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jT6p1IiVGvon for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AAC64309 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUhpN-0001vU-HD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:05 +0000 Received: from athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.161.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:05 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:30:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Different servers behind the same router Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:30:10 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20090203174321.GA30119@revolver> <20090203183516.GA30510@revolver> <20090204123529.GA22980@revolver> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-412040.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090203) In-Reply-To: <20090204123529.GA22980@revolver> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0938bcc8-5178-43f0-98f5-d9c7670c9375 X-Archives-Hash: 1b09a044f5434a6ee30ac744b4c02a6e 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.