From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 10:09:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28BA16A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arginine.spc.org (arginine.spc.org [195.206.69.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43F743FB1 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:09:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@spc.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D8E65493; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:09:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 73553-01-14; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:09:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from saboteur.dek.spc.org (unknown [81.3.72.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A4F65492; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:08:58 +0100 (BST) Received: by saboteur.dek.spc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 704CE9; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:08:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:08:56 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Message-ID: <20031001170856.GJ13612@saboteur.dek.spc.org> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> cc: esperti@gufi.org cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:09:06 -0000 On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:55:28AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > 1) Any viable solution with FreeBSD for doing that kinds (PPPoA or RFC > 1483) of encapsulation. Using xDSL will be difficult. There is a driver I have picked up for the Lanai chip (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 30x0 series), using an Alcatel PHY, but it's nowhere near ready for primetime yet, and I have no timeline for working on it (or funding/resources). > 2) Why FreeBSD doesn't support PPPoA in the same way it support PPPoE ? > Which are the difficulties of doing this ? > The "experts" that came to sell this migration said that PPPoA is a far > more efficient and better than PPPoE, is it true ? Not necessarily. It just might be easier for telcos to carry traffic over their backbones using ATM - more efficient for them, not necessarily more efficient for end-users. You'll have better luck with an external router for now, but help is on the way from others, that is all I can say right now. BMS