Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:31:14 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen <soren@soekris.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making support for ADSL interface ?? Message-ID: <3B1E8502.59E4F404@soekris.com> References: <3B1E703D.11D7690F@soekris.com> <200106061912.f56JCmn17095@whizzo.transsys.com>
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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. > There's also limited standardization on management interfaces for ADSL > CPE equipment. It's been a couple of years since I've been involved > with the ADSL forum, but there were proposes to have some management > channel to the CPE device (perhaps using ILMI? I don't recall). > The configuration and management have moved forward, take a look at the DSL Forum TR-037.... Regards, Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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