Sun May 02, 2010 11:55 am
I doubt this can be done, as there is no free and reliable implementation of MLPPP server on linux to my knowledge.
All efforts will go to MPLS and IPv6 now, moving from ATM over xDSL, PDH and SDH to MPLS over Ethernet.
Providers here begin to use MPLS over Ethernet fiber links for Datacenters interconnections. So there is no doubt that this technology will progressively replace PDH / SDH and ATM, because of simplicity, efficiency and cost.
To give an example, in France, our most advanced ADSL provider (FREE) does not use PPP at all since more than 4 years. All ADSL links are delivered with IP over ATM (IPoA) traffic.
ATM is still needed on ADSL links for Multiplay offers, because IP QoS is not efficient enough on slow links to get the job done because of the Frame size of 1500 bytes.
But as soon as FTTH will be here for everyone, ATM and PPP will become something of the past. This should be done in France for 2012-2013.
Because of this, there are few chances that a free MLPPP server will become a mature project one day, except if an active community decide to do it for the fun or to satisfy a quite small need that will become smaller and smaller.
Optical fiber, FTTH, will definitely kill PPP technologies in a couple of years. xDSL and copper will certainely be an obsolete technology in about 5 years, at least for America, Europe and Australia continents. To much problems with copper (EMI and cost).
