Quote Originally Posted by rec9140
PPP as I posted still dials .. ....

NO it does not dial a phone number

NO there is not a dial tone.

NO modem involved.

Again, your taking the traditional route of "dialing" to task.
I'm not sure what you mean by dialing. Most of the rest of the world uses it to imply some way to route a call or connection. But PPPoE does not route the call. It can't connect to different locations. It only connectes to the dslam that is on the other side of the DSL line. The complain here was that PPPoE software can't be used because it requires a phone number and the user doesn't have one to give it. That's just bogus.

What PPPoE does is encapsulate the normal ethernet packet inside another packet. Encapsulation is not dialing and has nothing to do with dialing, the two are not related. Many dial up systems do use Point-to-point Protocol (PPP), but that is different than PPPoE, even though the PPP in PPPoE stands for the same thing.