From owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 11:03:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B44116A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mercury.qix.co.uk (mercury.qix.co.uk [212.42.1.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E090643D1F for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aledm@qix.co.uk) Received: from localhost (aledm@localhost) by mercury.qix.co.uk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j27B3BBV009468; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:11 GMT Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Morris To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: atm@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PPP over ATM X-BeenThere: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ATM for FreeBSD! List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:03:26 -0000 >How exactly are you going to get the DSL signal from the telephone line >into the ATM card, then? You did say this was ADSL. I haven't seen any available recently but you used to be able to buy ADSL modems which simply did the layer 1 conversion from the POTS line to (typically) an ATM25 UTP port. Cisco had one (model 626 or 627 I think.) Plus of course the network side of the DSLAM is likely 155Mbps ATM, so you could connect your FreeBSD server there to terminate PPPoA from subscribers. I'd be interested to know how many such sessions you could achieve on a FreeBSD box - it could be a low-cost alternative to the products from Cisco or Redback etc. Aled