RE: [UUG/MLUG] GTE ADSL Protocol

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike is right.  You might still be able to use the Cisco box, but it will
have to function as a bridge, not a router.  The only way you'd be able to
use it as a router would be if GTE gave you your own IP network and either
pointed a static route in your direction or exchanged routing information
with your router via RIP or OSPF.

Since neither of those things is very likely, you're probably going to have
to use it as a bridge.

Which brings us back to your original question:  Assuming that the Cisco box
can bridge instead of route (which it should), does it use a DSL protocol
compatible with what GTE is using?

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberts, Michael J. (IATS) [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 6:11 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: RE: [UUG/MLUG] GTE ADSL Protocol
> 
> 
> I don't think you would be able to use a router.  The DSL 
> device they gave
> me through Tranquility functioned as a bridge.  I'm not quite 
> sure how GTE
> has it setup, but here's how we do it on campus.  The off 
> campus customer is
> given a DSL device that their ethernet host plugs into.  The 
> other end of
> the device plugs into a DSLAM (Digital Sync Line Access 
> Multiplexor) in some
> GTE node room.  From there we pick up the customer's DLC from a frame
> connection from GTE. The frame is terminated on a sync port 
> on one of our
> Bay routers.  Then it is bridged to another router port where 
> is actually
> get's routed.  If you have a router on your end, you'll 
> probably need a
> dedicated router port on GTE's end.  And I'm not sure GTE 
> would go for that.
> I'm not even sure if the GTE provided DSL device could plug 
> into a router.
> We did something similar to that with PairGain HDSL for on 
> campus customers,
> but we found that it used up to many router ports.  I bet 
> Paul Saab would
> know.  Paul, are you listening?
> 
> -mike
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Cooper [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 5:05 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [UUG/MLUG] GTE ADSL Protocol
> 
> 
> We're getting ADSL, and would like to use our own router 
> (A Cisco-something ADSL router). My bro read up on 
> ADSL and found that there were two seperate protocols, 
> the names of which slip my mind at the moment, and 
> another information page that said which one GTE used. 
> 
> He just got off the phone with GTE and said that GTE 
> said they used a propriatary protocol for the ADSL, which 
> he thought was BS (either one protocol or the other). 
> Well, does anyone know what protocol GTE uses for their 
> ADSL service?
> 
> Thx
> 
> Gavin Cooper
>