Bug 131556

Userspace pppoe helper predates pppd plugin, support hasn't been
changed yet. (That may be in bugzilla elsewhere.)

i think this feature which could be added in next fc4.
David, but i see a problem here with the firmware, which we probably
cannot include in our distri.

In fact it was a trivial change to make rp-pppoe's /sbin/adsl-connect
script handle the pppoatm plugin, as it's already capable of handling
the pppoe plugin anyway. Fixed in rp-pppoe-3.5-20.

Now we need the pretty config tools to let you set it up too -- but
that really is one for FC4.

Reassigning to system-config-network, which should allow users to
configure PPPoATM xDSL links, and which should be using the pppd
plugin for PPPoE too.

for PPPoE I think it's sufficient just to set LINUX_PLUGIN=rp-pppoe.so
when we set up a new device.

For PPPoATM, we need to set LINUX_PLUGIN=pppoatm.so, and also numeric
arguments VCI and VPI in the config file. These are "Virtual Channel
Identifier", "Virtual Path Identifier" resp.

Since VCI/VPI are a per-ISP thing, it would be nice to have a list of
known settings, and also to let the user enter them manually if their
ISP isn't known. In fact we could even choose between PPPoE and PPPoA
that way. For data see
http://gateway.bedroom.gen.nz/~clive/adsl/thefiles/CnxADSL_v.html
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/faq/index.html#q12
and you can add "UK, Andrews and Arnold" with VPI 0, VCI 38.

A good howto for this:
http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/fedora-core-3.html

That advocates setting up the pppd peer file manually and invoking
pppd manually -- I fixed the rp-pppoe scripts so that it ought to work
through the initscripts properly -- see the last part of
ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/dsl/README (the first part isn't needed
any more now that the kernel driver is merged anyway).

Support for PPPoE over ATM instead of over a physical Ethernet device is also
now included in FC4. We still lack system-config-network support. The existing
'Ethernet device' selection needs to be changed to allow _either_ Ethernet
devices, or 'ATM/DSL modem'. In the case where a DSL modem is selected, the user
should enter the VCI and VPI and the protocol (PPPoA/PPPoE) which is generally
in the welcome pack received from the ISP. Those end up in the ifcfg-xxx config
file as 

VCI=xxx
VPI=yyy

For PPPoA we add LINUX_PLUGIN=pppoatm.so
For PPPoE we add LINUX_PLUGIN=rp-pppoe.so and BR2684DEV=0

That's enough for supporting a single DSL modem per system -- we _could_ perhaps
go a bit further and poke in /proc/net/atm/devices and find a way of adding the
device MAC to the VCI/VPI information to allow multiple modems, but I don't
think that's necessary for FC4.

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It's still missing in system-config-network.

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