TRUST 215A SPEEDLINK ADSL PCI WEB MODEM
9
U K
Country:
ISP:
VPI:
VCI:
Internet
protocol:
Encapsulation
:
France
France Telecom
8
35
PPPoA
VCMUX
Table 1: ISP settings
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Explanation of Protocols
This section gives an explanation regarding the various protocols and the naming
conventions in use. This section might offer some clarification when you are
uncertain which protocols you may need.
In order to establish a connection to the Internet via ADSL, various protocols are
available. Each party often refers to these protocols by a different name. For
example, it may be that your ISP or ADSL line supplier refers to the PPPoA protocol
with the name ‘RFC2364’, or as in the software resident in the modem, ‘NDISWAN’.
Your ISP will inform you which protocol is required.
Refer to tables 2 and 3 below for the correct names of the various protocols.
Driver name:
Includes protocol:
Protocol:
NDISLAN
NDISWAN
PPPoA
PPPoE
Bridged/
Routed
ethernet
IP
RFC1483,
RFC2684
X
X
RFC2364
X
X
X
RFC2516
X
X
RFC1577
X
Table 2: description of protocols
Given that during the manual installation the names NDISLAN and NDISWAN will
appear in connection with the modem software, and that these names are very
unlikely to be known to the ISP, a brief explanation is given in table 3, which
protocols these drivers include, with the most common names.
Driver
name:
PPPoA /
RFC2364
PPPoE / RFC2364 /
RFC2516
Bridged/Routed ethernet /
RFC1483
NDISLAN
X
NDISWAN
X
X
Table 3: general naming convention for protocols
