Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:17:47 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook Message-ID: <20121120131747.6064fc64@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20121120005151.GB86793@ozzmosis.com> References: <20121120004938.GA86793@ozzmosis.com> <20121120005151.GB86793@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:51:51 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke > (mail@ozzmosis.com) wrote: > > > In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5) > > and /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good: > > > > # ifconfig ng0 > > ng0: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> > > metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 124.170.51.116 --> 203.215.7.251 netmask > > 0xffffffff > > Incidentally the PPPoA section of the FreeBSD is very out of date: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html > > The ambiguously named net/pppoa port in section 28.6.1 has been marked > as broken since 2009. (Ambiguous since it's only for a particular > brand of USB ASDL modem.) > > In section 28.6.2 the example provided is a config file for mpd 4.x > which does not work in mpd 5.x. > > net/mpd4 was deleted from the ports tree 11 months ago. > > net/mpd5 doesn't seem to support PPPoA, only PPPoE. I could find no > reference to PPPoA in the manual or source code. Not many people really need that these days. PPPoA support is needed for obsolete USB modems which pass-through ATM for the host to terminate. There are also some pci modems supported by Linux, but I don't think they've been well supported on FreeBSD, if at all. These days there are better options that only require standards-based support in the host. Most PPPoA-based ISPs also support PPPoE over ATM - even if they don't advertise it or tell their low-level technical support. Alternatively you can: - use a NAT router that terminate PPPoA - use a router/modem that bridges PPPoA to PPPoE - use a router/modem that terminates PPPoA and passes the public IP address to the host
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