Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 06:55:28 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: esperti@gufi.org Subject: ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ? Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20030615064011.02e39eb8@194.184.65.4>
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Hi, I need in a near future to convert a bunch of adsl from PPPoE to PPPoA (more than 100 :-). Now they was working on FreeBSD (usually 4.8-STABLE, user ppp in PPPoE, zyxel 645M). Everything works fine until the management choose a new feeder for them which doesn't use PPPoE at all, but only RFC1483 and PPPoA. Is really possible that there is no way to do PPPoA with FreeBSD ? I am not expert so I ask: 1) Any viable solution with FreeBSD for doing that kinds (PPPoA or RFC 1483) of encapsulation. Or I have simply to drop the idea to have a PPP (or any other progs) that permits at FreeBSD to manage the connection using instead a simple router ? Having FreeBSD that manage the connection usually permit to save a lot of NAT/PAT in the router iteself and make also firewall rules more simpler :-) 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 ? Thanks all for the kind attention. Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco
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