On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:08 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
PPP comes over many things - ethernet, atm, isdn, oh yes and modem
now and
then. PPPoE termination is common for some sorts of ADSL lines.
Wow, Evolution complete ate my reply to this. Here's what I said:
Ok. The point isn't PPP so much (which is just a technical detail) as
"what can we autodetect", and thus "what is the UI required". Is
there
any way to know for example that the ADSL router requires a machine to
talk PPP to it? Does it have a DHCP server? etc.