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
