Direct Connect Vs. Dial Up - Alcatel speed touch home Advanced User's Manual

14.2 Direct Connect vs. Dial up

Direct Networking
Dial Up Networking
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Basically the Speed Touch Home offers two solutions to access
remote information infrastructures: "Direct Networking" and
"Dial Up Networking".
Direct Networking relates to how the network connection is
experienced by the user. The connection is always active, thus
no actions are necessary.
Direct Networking is what is typically experienced on a LAN. Initial
configuration of all networking nodes in the end to end network is
still required, but this must only be performed once when the
service is enabled.
Powering the local PCs and the STHome is enough to enable the
user to interact with the network, once the initial configuration is
done.
In this mode, there is initially no connectivity; you must explicitly
request a connection by dialing up" the network.
The remote organization will require you to identify and
authenticate yourself. Before you are allowed to access its
resources, it will request you to supply your personal User Account.
The STHome supports both solutions independently whether you
are using the Ethernet or the ATMF 25 interface.
Although the transparent character of the ATMF 25 interface
supports both networking modes, the PC applications will
determine whether you use the Direct or Dial Up mode.
For the Ethernet interface the scenario is more complicated as you
will see below:
Direct and continuous connectivity is accomplished via
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the IEEE 802.1D Transparent data bridge in the STHome.
Applications sending out broadcasts asking for servers are
automatically forwarded by the bridge. Please refer to section
14.3 for more information.
Dial Up relies on the standard PPP protocol family and local
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tunneling using the industry PPTP protocol. See section 14.4
for more information on PPP and PPTP .
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