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From: Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help - Auto PPPoA and PPPoE detection in ADSL line
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:40:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616084030.GA31282@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61CBBC5FF0C80E4286E28E959D967F5A01FC9E60@SGEXCHG.aztech.com>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:09:04PM +0800, Ranjeet Kumar - R&D wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am new in this group, if anything is wrong, please excuse me in advance.
> 
> We have ADSL modem running Linux Version - 2.4 and pppd version 2.4.1. We
> want to detect the protocol, whether it is PPPoE or PPPoA, of the connected
> ADSL line. Can anybody help me in providing information on how to achieve
> this task? We are using pppoe and pppoa plugin with pppd to connect to DSLAM
> (ISP).

Detecting of PPPoE is easy: Send a PADI and see if you receive a
PADO.

This can be done with 'pppoe -A' included in the rp-pppoe source
or you can also write your one code.

I do not have experiences with PPPoA.

ciao Arvin

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-16  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-16  7:09 Help - Auto PPPoA and PPPoE detection in ADSL line Ranjeet Kumar - R&D
2005-06-16  8:40 ` Arvin Schnell [this message]
2005-06-16 12:56 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-16 12:57 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-16 13:34 ` James Carlson

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