On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:25:27PM +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> I have been googling around and found various answers, but some of
> them conflict and so I wanted to ask the list:
> 
> What PCI ADSL card do you use in your OpenBSD box?
> 
> The use case will be a rack mounted firewall (thus the wish for a PCI
> card to sit inside the server) handling an ADSL connection for backup
> access and bulk traffic.  The card and drivers need to be reliable and
> just handle the line as this will be the backup way in.
> 
> Preferably I want a card that is going to do the ADSL protocol layer
> itself and not hand anything off to the CPU which will be handling a
> transparent firewall.
> 
> Should be able to support PPPoE, ADSL2+ would be good to have, though
> plain v1 ADSL is also fine if the driver / card combination is more
> robust.
> 

Use an external modem and terminate the pppoe session on your OpenBSD box.
The only PCI based ADSL card around is based on a very old chipset that is
not ADSL2+ capable and people using the card had stability issues on OpenBSD.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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