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-[PPPoA] is an Acronym for [PPP] over [ATM], a protocol which is commonly used for [ADSLModems] such as World-Net's [AccessRunner|AccessRunnerADSLModem] and D-Link AHL110. The
default PPP distribution for linux does
not come with PPPoA support and neither does
the debian packages
in either woody, sarge, or sid
. However there are patches floating around to add this functionality. The patches provided below are originally from the current [Suse] version of ppp which ships with PPPoA support. I have extracted these patches and verified that they work with both the standard ppp-2.4.1 distribution and the debian sarge
ppp-2.4.1 source package.
+[PPPoA] is an Acronym for [PPP] over [ATM], a protocol which is commonly used for [ADSLModems] such as World-Net's [AccessRunner|AccessRunnerADSLModem] and D-Link AHL110.
+
+__PPPoA is supported out of the box on Debian Sarge (pppd 2.4.3), so this page is largely unnecessary now.__ As of 2.4.1 howver, the
default PPP distribution for linux did
not come with PPPoA support,
and neither did
the Debian package
in Woody
. However there are patches floating around to add this functionality. The patches provided below are originally from the current [Suse] version of ppp which ships with PPPoA support. I have extracted these patches and verified that they work with both the standard ppp-2.4.1 distribution and the debian woody
ppp-2.4.1 source package.
+
+Before we start with all the configuration you should be aware of the fact that you need to connect your ADSL modem directly to your Linux box (eg via USB or as internal PCI card) - it is __not__ possible to have it connected via [Ethernet]
.
!! Kernel Options
You'll need a kernel that has ATM support compiled in. Make sure the following options are enabled:
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!! Precompiled .deb
If you are impatient and just want to get PPPoA up and running on your system without compiling from source the following debs may work for you. Grab whichever one is appropriate for your version of debian. If you dont run debian woody or sarge, you have to compile from source.
-Sarge:
- http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/LinuxPPPoA/ppp_2.4.1.uus-4_i386.deb
Woody:
http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/LinuxPPPoA/ppp_2.4.1.uus-4pppoa_i386.deb
Skip ahead to the Configuring PPPoA section.
-
-''The above ppp package for sarge appears to be horribly out of date. libpcap0 has been updated to libpcap-0.8 in sarge, and the stock ppp in sarge is at version 2.4.2 --JamesDoherty''
!! Compiling from Source
#You will need the following 3 patches
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!!Traverse Technologies Pulsar PCI ADSL modem using Linux
* Check my How-To http://fw.webmaster.co.nz/traverse
+
+!!Conexant Access Runner PCI ADSL modem using Linux
+
+See [AccessRunnerADSLModem] for details on configuration of this modem.