13.2. Relationship Between the Stack, the Network, and the CPE Configuration
A management architecture for DSL CPE, which meets the requirements mentioned above, can be built based on the observation that communications between the customer's equipment and the services available over a DSL network progress deeper into the network as each layer of the communication stack initializes. As the CPE initializes its communications protocol stack, it is able to receive configuration information from the part of the network that it is currently able to communicate with. The particular place in the network that the CPE has “reached” at any time during the initialization has the information that is required to get to the next further place in the network. ...
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