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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Making support for ADSL interface ?? 
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> Louis,
> =

> Thanks for your reply.
> =

> "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
> > =

> > You'd also need to support PPPoE, which on most ADSL systems appears
> > as PPP on Ethernet as RFC-1490 bridged encapsulation of the ethernet
> > frames in AAL5 ATM cells.  It's unclear that this is worth doing at
> > the ATM level since the CPE devices with an Ethernet are fairly
> > inexpensive; the existing Ethernet interface might be the most cost
> > effective.
> =

> I will need to support PPPoE, but netgraph can probably take care of
> that.... But directly, as the point is to have one single low cost box
> with everything, that why I'm working on doing an ADSL board with PCI
> interface.... And I might even put the ADSL interface on the mainboard.=


What I'm not sure is if the netgraph code currently has hooks into
the ATM network interfaces, and if it "knows" about ethernet frame
bridge encapsulation.  I'm guessing that the netgraph platform would
make the most sense to support this kind of application.

louie


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