ADSL PPoA or RFC1483, any solutions ?

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 06:55:28AM +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> 1) Any viable solution with FreeBSD for doing that kinds (PPPoA or RFC 
> 1483) of encapsulation.

Using xDSL will be difficult. There is a driver I have picked up for the
Lanai chip (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 30x0 series), using an Alcatel
PHY, but it's nowhere near ready for primetime yet, and I have no timeline
for working on it (or funding/resources).

> 2) Why FreeBSD doesn't support PPPoA in the same way it support PPPoE ?
> Which are the difficulties of doing this ?
> The "experts" that came to sell this migration said that PPPoA is a far 
> more efficient and better than PPPoE, is it true ?

Not necessarily. It just might be easier for telcos to carry traffic over
their backbones using ATM - more efficient for them, not necessarily more
efficient for end-users.

You'll have better luck with an external router for now, but help is on
the way from others, that is all I can say right now.

BMS