Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:40:18 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Subject: Re: pppoa connection Message-ID: <200710261040.18817.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <DD2BA22E-523B-4751-9417-E2DA0DFF1157@tinker.com> References: <A5EB0F83-8C40-4014-84E0-5C5661885661@tinker.com> <20071026052932.GA72917@pit.databus.com> <DD2BA22E-523B-4751-9417-E2DA0DFF1157@tinker.com>
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flakey fingers... On Friday 26 October 2007 10:06:30 Kim Shrier wrote: > Other people successfully use this modem to connect to their ISP > when the ISP accepts pppoe connections and the modem is configured > as a bridge. Unfortunately, my ISP doesn't support pppoe, only > pppoa. The only way to do PPPoA is to have a device that does the DSL and ATM layers and handles the rest to FreeBSD. There is a chapter in the handbook that covers this, but of course it mentions specific devices and I think there would a very small number of devices that you can use with FreeBSD to do PPPoA. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html Nikos
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