That's correct, you'd need an ADSL NIC. There's the Solos card from Traverse Technologies.
Yawarra sells it, but I think there's a European distributor as well. PPPoA is for now impossible just because of some missing scripting glue, but I'm think that's not more than a few hours work to cobble up. Why is your DSL limited to 832kb/s? On 8/23/10 8:22 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > I'm in the UK, and currently do have a few spare DSL lines kicking around > (though they are spare because I have identified them as unused, and are > slated for removal). But excuse the dilletante ignorance: our Astlinux > EXTIFs connect to ADSL modem/routers. I did ask a while back about the > ability to get a hw NIC to do PPPoA, and was told it was impossible. How > could I help? Would I need an ADSL card (ie is that what you are > suggesting)? > > To answer your previous question: we have PSTN cards to connect to the PSTN. > Because our DSL is limited to a theoretical max of 832kbps, VoIP is > unrealistic other than between our sites. Our set-up is therefore: > > > SIP handsets + PAP2Ts > | > Astlinux - ADSL modem/routers - IAX2 over ADSL to another site > | > PSTN card (berofix BRI or PRI, or Digium TDM POTS card) > | > PSTN > > > Go ASCII. > > Hope this clarifies > > Tom > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 21 August 2010 00:54 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Second external NIC for VPN >> >> On 8/20/10 8:03 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: >>>> Another issue, only one interface can be PPPoE, not both. >>>> (Assuming you are using PPPoE for your ADSL) >>> Nope: PPPoA via external routers. >> I'm working on PPPoA support right now. Just need to order a circuit. >> >> BTW: where are you located, and do you have any spare DSL >> circuits (or one you could loan for testing)? >> >> Might be faster than getting a circuit delivered. >> >> -Philip >> >> >> >>>> Another issue, IPsec is only supported as static IP to static IP. >>> All sites have /29 static subnets, so no problem there. Home users >>> obviously are dynamic. >>> >>>> Another issue, L2TP/IPsec server is not supported. On the other >>>> hand, OpenVPN can be configured to handle your needs, but all your >>>> clients would have to switch to OpenVPN. >>> Not too much of an issue, to be honest - our current L2TP/IPSec >>> road-warrior connection have utterly unexplained problems >> as it is, so >>> a change would not be out of the question. >>> >>> Tom >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
