Re: [LARTC] Slashdot on WRT54G

[Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>]

james jones wrote:

>Message: 6
>Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:14:11 +0100
>From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>
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>>Also, any other issues 
>>with a uk ADSL line that might prevent this working...?
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>If your provider is using PPPoA instead of PPPoE then you might have
>some problems. I'm not sure if the Linksys unit in default config
>handles PPPoA. The only reason I mention this is because I know that
>BT uses PPPoA.
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Actually I asked what I thought was a silly question because I had 
naively thought that the WRT54G was also an adsl modem.  Having read the 
specs it appears just to be a wireless accesspoint with some firewall 
ability.

So I guess I'm curious how BT's choice of PPoA would affect things?  For 
sure their MTU is 1492 instead of 1500 (although I read they wanted to 
change that...).  But I would have expected pretty much everything else 
to be transparent apart from the abilities of accurately guaging speed 
with tc rules..?

Thanks for any insight

Ed W
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