RE: PPP over ATM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:02 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: PPP over ATM
>
>
> [email protected] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> > My current ADSL provider runs PPP directly over ATM, instead of PPP
> > over Ethernet over ATM.  I can get PPPoEoA from other providers, but
> > I'm not inclined to switch, for a variety of reasons.  Can
> FreeBSD run
> > PPP directly over ATM?  If yes, can somebody help me set it up?
>
> I should add that I want to do this with a Fore ATM PCI adapter, not
> some dinky little USB thingy.
>

Dag, I think you are a bit mistaken.  You don't need an ATM card for
this.

Just buy a plain bridged DSL modem, set it up for bridging/transparent
bridging plug it's ethernet connection into an ethernet port on the
FreeBSD system, and run PPPoE on that port.

Ted

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