Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/4 Per Jessen
: Dotan Cohen wrote:
In my country, to connect to the internet one must have both an infrastructure provider (ADSL or cable) _and_ an ISP (outside IP address).
The same applies here in Switzerland. Sometimes the infrastructure provider and the ISP are one and the same. (Swisscom and Bluewin for instance).
To connect, one uses an L2TP 'dialer' to 'dial into' the infrastructure provider. Of course, there is no Linux dialer so Linux users are either using an old, unmaintained script from a defunct ISP or using a router (most consumer grade routers can dial L2TP connections).
A couple of years ago I did some experiments with an ADSL plugin card - I'm pretty certain I used plain PPP/expect scripts for logging in and all that.
Yes, the outdated scripts used PPP but when connecting via a router one uses L2TP. The ISP supports both.
That must be infrastructure specific and not really a CPE hardware issue. Our ADSL connection also uses a router, but the tunneling is with PPPoE or PPPoA. L2TP and PPPoX must be fairly closely related, I would think. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org