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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:35:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>
Cc:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATM WAN interface
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812282231180.13290-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <19981228123944.43552@rdrop.com>

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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Alan Batie wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:49:01PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
> > Note that ATM has a LOT of overhead (like 30%).
> 
> Yes, I'm not at all thrilled about it, but that's how US Worst pipes
> xDSL feeds to ISPs, so if I can't get an ATM interface on a FreeBSD
> box, I'll have to buy an ATM router if I want to support DSL.

Well, of course you can have an ATM interface on a FreeBSD box - use e.g.
Fore PCA200e card (155Mbps OC3c, either single- or multi-mode fiber). Any
machine above Pentium 166, running fairly recent FreeBSD 3.0 will be able
to saturate the link. The cost compared to Cisco 47xx is quite
competitive... :-)

Andrzej Bialecki

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