From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 17:39:51 2004 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 AF22516A4CE; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (corbulon.video-collage.com [64.35.99.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3609243D1F; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from 250-217.customer.cloud9.net (195-11.customer.cloud9.net [168.100.195.11])i161dlaT072786 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:39:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from localhost (mteterin@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i161dfw3093940; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:39:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com) From: Mikhail Teterin Organization: Murex N.A. To: Julian Elischer Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:39:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402052039.40634@misha-mx.virtual-estates.net> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: questions@FreeBSD.org cc: chuck@research.att.com cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: switching to an internal DSL modem -- natd, ipfw 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: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:39:51 -0000 [Now CC-ing Chuck Cranor -- the en's author] => => http://store.yahoo.com/softbuyweb/inpcidslmod3.html => =What makes you think we have a driver for this? => The en(4) manual page and the description of this product (on the => page above) as one based on Efficient Network's chip. Can there be => anything else? =I'd be dubious.. the en driver was for an old expensive ATM card from ='95 or so.. even though the ad says it supports PPPoE among other =things, I'd be pretty surprised if we could talk to it.. =(surprises do happen though) So, back to the original question -- am I likely to have to any problems with natd and ipfw dealing with this non-Ethernet interface -- assuming en-driver attaches to this card at all? Any other ATM card I should consider as an internal DSL modem? Thanks! -mi