ADSL connection from "Stream" provider, ...

... the daughter of Moscow telephone company MGTS who has a city monopoly of copper lines.

Last six years I've used home ethernet from small local ISP, but the quality of their service was constantly decreasing so finally I gave up.

Installation was surprisingly fast. I've subscribed at Monday, got an affirmative reply at the same day followed by a confirmation on next. The only human involved was sales person at local shop where I've bought ADSL modem. At the same evening I've brought connection up with 256/128Kbps.

ZyXEL OMNI ADSL LAN EE (no info on corporate website?) has funny control interfaces as you can see from line quality monitoring script.

ZyNOS F/W Version: V3.40(QE.3) | 10/21/2004
ADSL Chipset Vendor: Alcatel, Version 15.9.214

Such a device should not stay naked in the Internet, so it does bridge like "Bridged IP over ATM LLC SNAP" (RFC 1483), VPI/VCI=1/50. There is only one other's source mac address seen behind the bridge (ppp concentrator), and around 30 destination macs from last packets of other clients (perhaps broadcasted by DSLAM after line goes down but before ppp dies). PPPoE (RFC 2516) lands on FreeBSD's ppp (-ddial) with simple configuration:

adsl:
	set device PPPoE:eth_interface
	set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
	enable lqr
	set cd 5
	set redial 1 1
	set reconnect 30 0
	set dial
	set login
	set authname "***"
	set authkey "***"
	disable ipv6cp
	nat enable yes
	add default HISADDR
	set server /var/run/ppp_adsl.ctl "***" 0177

The plan is to get IPTV services "Stream-TV" (according to all information it should be multicast with Videoguard's data on VPI/VCI=1/92). Paradyne 6211 is claimed to be compatible with this service, the question is about ZyXEL.