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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>

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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
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