From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 7 23:54:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4599E37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gnah.bolet.org (gnah.bolet.org [80.65.226.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD73E43ED1 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:54:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pornin@bolet.org) Received: from gnah.bolet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gnah.bolet.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h087sXHv051609 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:54:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pornin@bolet.org) Received: (from pornin@localhost) by gnah.bolet.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h087sVqt051608 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:54:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:54:30 +0100 From: Thomas Pornin To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL question Message-ID: <20030108085429.A51423@gnah.bolet.org> References: <200301072133.14956.pointer2002@free.fr> <5.1.1.6.2.20030108115908.01d56ec0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030108115908.01d56ec0@127.0.0.1>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:01:09PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:01:09PM +1100, Rob B wrote: > >- is there an existing adsl modem working on alpha/bsd. > > As long as the modem has an ethernet connection for the computer, then I > can't see why it would not work. This message is sent from a FreeBSD/alpha host through an ethernet ADSL modem. So it indeed works. The tricky part was to get an ethernet modem, not a USB-only one. The vendor got a bit confused when I told him that although the machine was not a PC, it was not a Mac either; but he got it right when I told him explicitely "my machine does not support USB". Machine is an AXPpci33 "Noname" board (166 MHz ev4), with 32 MB of RAM, and it works great as far as networking is concerned. ADSL link uses PPPoE, so I run pppd (userland -- and it implements NAT and simple packet filtering), and I have enough CPU and RAM left to host my mail server and primary DNS. --Thomas Pornin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message