From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 01:48:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B61E106564A for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:48:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C018FC15 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C285EC35C; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:48:08 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=16Q6C7Q8vyNGPnIQOCvukAI/KX0=; b=X5Hugz7/Ndj8RGVqGnvtHP4Dzd62oMiisNiVEiQ/5kOWOmKiGISi2YGEiq3bOef05WNGtyGKQOkxLLbCkPchHtwZ4g62i5LvTl+v4IBYdDBd1tbDYsjwv5qKh6C1Yx9Cv8masMQ23kMVBlTTORxbvBIrwQUqB4TPRfTVV3B1dVI= X-Sasl-enc: tw7WIZ+vvFPpfkFL8/sU6HWCd1TZx3hePu/malr3kdSB 1272160087 Received: from anglepoise.lon.incunabulum.net (cpc2-dals7-0-0-cust253.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 960CD49593; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BD39F55.9040600@incunabulum.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:48:05 +0100 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100406 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jake Baillie References: <0D51275610C0C04588FA911C811B687E02A51E50@be18.exg4.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <0D51275610C0C04588FA911C811B687E02A51E50@be18.exg4.exghost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Traverse Solos 4-port ADSL card X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:48:09 -0000 The way these things generally work is they have an ADSL2+ MAC in front, and a Realtek-like Ethernet chip on the PCI bus, with a little microcontroller and web interface. The multi-port ones don't; generally they use native encap. A Linux driver will certainly not work and need to be rewritten for BSD netnatm. I'm surprised the original vendor don't ship a BSD driver. It's difficult to spec out a project like this without looking at the driver. cheers BMS