Isn't the DSLAM programmed to forward your stream to a certain IP, and there only ? I think it is. The end of the tunnel is not at the telco, it is the internet provider. You cannot 'go elsewhere' in-between, regardless of what pppoe or other programs try to do. Because there is no 'elsewhere' to go to. The DSLAM provides a point to point connection from your phone number's associated DSL interface at the telco to the provider. I have also never heard of someone being subscribed with more than one DSL provider on one phone line.

That's basically been my experience too. I do a lot of dsl setups or changeovers from sympatico/aibn and have not yet been able to get the downtime to less than 4 days. The providers always say that Bell needs to provision the line for digital for their system rather than just switch from one provider to another, so this suggests to me that the end point for the ppp is the gateway at the provider. As for having more than one provider on the same line, never heard of it, although I have had 2 lines sharing the same account info when moving. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml