What about an expect script to talk to the router explicitly?
-Brian
On Oct 30,  6:55am, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} Subject: Re: ADSL: PPP over ATM support
} On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:07PM +1300, Ernst du Toit wrote:
} > Is there support in NetBSD land for any ADSL Modems that do PPP over
} > ATM?
} > Or am I stuck with an ADSL router to do the hardwork?
} > 
} > The reason I ask is that the billing conditions in my neck of the woods
} > does not encourage being connected to the network while idle. 
} > 
} > So I'd like to implement an on demand link and I can't think of a clever
} > method to control an external router - apart from dropping power to the
} > device :)
} 
} The driver for the Alcatel USB ADSL modem (it's in pkgsrc) does some
} kind of ppp over ATM. I don't know of anything else.
} 
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} Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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