On 16/08/2005, at 6:54 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote:
Great info Simon, thank you. All the DSL modems I've seen here in the USA are ethernet based on the user side and as misfortune would have it, many providers *require* using their particular modem, so the user side of it is all that matters. It's all been consumer grade kit, even though a lot of it is in business use, none the less, I have not seen a DSL modem with ATM on the user side (probably because it would be pointless to make it that way).
In Australia I am using a Netgear DG632 consumer grade ADSL MODEM/Router with PPPoA. The 'A' refers to the line side, not the ethernet side which runs into my OpenBSD firewall. MODEM mode with this unit seems to be a "half bridge mode" which actually works. I don't know if the use of PPPoA is common in Australia, but every ADSL MODEM/Router I have seen over here has had PPPoA as an option.
