On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote: BMS>On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:55:28AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: BMS>> 1) Any viable solution with FreeBSD for doing that kinds (PPPoA or RFC BMS>> 1483) of encapsulation. BMS> BMS>Using xDSL will be difficult. There is a driver I have picked up for the BMS>Lanai chip (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 30x0 series), using an Alcatel BMS>PHY, but it's nowhere near ready for primetime yet, and I have no timeline BMS>for working on it (or funding/resources). BMS> BMS>> 2) Why FreeBSD doesn't support PPPoA in the same way it support PPPoE ? BMS>> Which are the difficulties of doing this ? BMS>> The "experts" that came to sell this migration said that PPPoA is a far BMS>> more efficient and better than PPPoE, is it true ?
If PPPeA is the same protocol as PPPoE you just need to plug ng_pppoe on top of ng_atm with the VCC opened that carries the traffic and you're done. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
