Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:51:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: esperti@gufi.org Subject: Re: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ? Message-ID: <20031002094605.A11328@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20031001170856.GJ13612@saboteur.dek.spc.org> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4> <20031001170856.GJ13612@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote: BMS>On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:55:28AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: BMS>> 1) Any viable solution with FreeBSD for doing that kinds (PPPoA or RFC BMS>> 1483) of encapsulation. BMS> BMS>Using xDSL will be difficult. There is a driver I have picked up for the BMS>Lanai chip (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 30x0 series), using an Alcatel BMS>PHY, but it's nowhere near ready for primetime yet, and I have no timeline BMS>for working on it (or funding/resources). BMS> BMS>> 2) Why FreeBSD doesn't support PPPoA in the same way it support PPPoE ? BMS>> Which are the difficulties of doing this ? BMS>> The "experts" that came to sell this migration said that PPPoA is a far BMS>> more efficient and better than PPPoE, is it true ? If PPPeA is the same protocol as PPPoE you just need to plug ng_pppoe on top of ng_atm with the VCC opened that carries the traffic and you're done. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031002094605.A11328>