| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:47:05 -0500 |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:07:30PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote: > If the problem is with the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Loop Access > Module) which is probably what you/they are calling the DSL Bridge, > located in the Central Office, there is no way that you can communicate > with it. The RBOCs and CLECs jealously guard access to this gear. All the nasty things you say about DSLAMs is true, but Paul's talking about the box with the blinky lights in his house. And he's right, it's not a modem, properly, but a bridge (probably; some SDSL lines bear full-fledged routers, depending on the protocol that goes upstream to the DSLAM). It's not doing its own analog signalling, it's converting between two kind of Ethernet; PPPoE or ATM on one side and regular 802.3 (or .2, or .11, or whatever) on the other side. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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