Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:37:41 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: georg@bege.email, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for ATM bridging (RFC1483/2684) in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <5A5A43E5.50902@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <3032eab4-8c07-b701-83ca-d07ffd17ee11@bege.email> References: <e4fdb3f4-8dde-9c90-5527-3f5192d615a8@bege.email> <3032eab4-8c07-b701-83ca-d07ffd17ee11@bege.email>
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14.01.2018 0:27, Georg Bege wrote: >> It depends on hardware you have. Do you have some internal PCI ATM adapter or external device? > Thanks for your response. > Well I have come to the believe that no special hardware is required for > this, basically they somehow seem to route this via PPPoE (or at least > that's what I think). > Basically you establish an PPPoE connection and then you somehow must > acquire an virtual ATM device (which carries VCR/VCI.. and encapsulates > this) much like VDSL does with vlan tagging.... > > Im not sure if Im 100% correct, but for example I can establish the > internet connection with just an normal ADSL2+ Annex J compatible Modem > and PPPoE works too. > What I dont get without this bridging stuff is the IPTV stream, it seems > that on this bridged device an dhcp query is necessary in order to get > access to the multicast net. So, you already have ADSL2+ modem with ethernet interface acting as bridge for PPPoE traffic and you use FreeBSD to establish PPPoE session, right? And what is "IPTV stream" exactly? Is it just IP multicast somehow encapsulated into VCI or something else?
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