Chapter 5. PPPoA configuration

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Table of Contents

Objectives
Step 1: declare the pppatm package
Step 2: declare the ppp and pppoatm modules
Step 3: configure pppatm
Step 4: configure your interfaces file
Step 5: configure Shorewall
Step 7: reboot...

Objectives

We assume here that you want to connect your LEAF router to the Internet via PPPoA. The PPPoE connection is covered in another section of this user's guide. So is the PPTP/PPPoA connection. What is described here corresponds to section 3.2.4 of the DSL How-To document. The traffic to your internal network goes through eth0 while access to the Internet via PPPoA goes through ppp0.

The PPP-Howto and the DSL-Howto are two useful references for this section.

The following setup has been tested by Dave Anderson, who gets connected to BT DSL service using a Bewan ATM/PCI "st" card on a P166 machine.

Thanks to Dave for his patience in testing!

Comments on this section should be addressed to its maintainer: Jacques Nilo .