Re: PPPoE and PPPoA as Modem Driver
Re: PPPoE and PPPoA as Modem Driver
- Subject: Re: PPPoE and PPPoA as Modem Driver
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:55:54 -0500
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a classic serial driver registered with CRM) is that your driver will
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be visible to non-PPP clients. You don't want users opening up
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Z-Term and trying to talk to your port because it's not going to work.
Lets assume that the issue you mention is only a support issue. Knowing
that we already have a completed USB Ethernet driver, following the
EthernetShim model, it looks like the quickest route (which is what we
want) to getting PPPoE / PPPoA working is to do a modem driver using the
USB SerialShim library. We already have the code for framing/unframing
serial data from the Windows drivers for this prodcut, and we can easily
add/remove the ethernet framing in the modem driver for the PPPoE case.
This would eliminate any learning curve of TPI and DLPI. I accept that
this might not be the approach you would suggest, but do you see any
other technical reasons why it doesn't sound like a reasonably short way
to get a solution way. It also eliminates the requirement of a network
configurator and a port scanner, right?
Thanks for your time,
-Chris