From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 28 13:30:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23732 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23722 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA28840; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:35:29 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:35:29 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Alan Batie cc: Dennis , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATM WAN interface In-Reply-To: <19981228123944.43552@rdrop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Alan Batie wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:49:01PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > Note that ATM has a LOT of overhead (like 30%). > > Yes, I'm not at all thrilled about it, but that's how US Worst pipes > xDSL feeds to ISPs, so if I can't get an ATM interface on a FreeBSD > box, I'll have to buy an ATM router if I want to support DSL. Well, of course you can have an ATM interface on a FreeBSD box - use e.g. Fore PCA200e card (155Mbps OC3c, either single- or multi-mode fiber). Any machine above Pentium 166, running fairly recent FreeBSD 3.0 will be able to saturate the link. The cost compared to Cisco 47xx is quite competitive... :-) Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message