Making support for ADSL interface ??

2001-06-06 Thread Soren Kristensen
Hi Everybody, I would like to inquire about what it would take to make a driver for a specific ADSL board with direct PCI interface to FreeBSD First, lets assume that I will supply boards, and that all necessery documentation will be available. How good is FreeBSD current structures for

Re: Making support for ADSL interface ??

2001-06-06 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
How good is FreeBSD current structures for running ADSL, I'm thinking about the ATM support already present, and probably using netgraph ? I would need support for the most common protocols used worldwide, t.ex PPPoATM, IPoATM You'd also need to support PPPoE, which on most ADSL systems

Re: Making support for ADSL interface ??

2001-06-06 Thread Soren Kristensen
Louis, Thanks for your reply. Louis A. Mamakos wrote: You'd also need to support PPPoE, which on most ADSL systems appears as PPP on Ethernet as RFC-1490 bridged encapsulation of the ethernet frames in AAL5 ATM cells. It's unclear that this is worth doing at the ATM level since the CPE

Re: Making support for ADSL interface ??

2001-06-06 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
Louis, Thanks for your reply. Louis A. Mamakos wrote: You'd also need to support PPPoE, which on most ADSL systems appears as PPP on Ethernet as RFC-1490 bridged encapsulation of the ethernet frames in AAL5 ATM cells. It's unclear that this is worth doing at the ATM level since

Re: Making support for ADSL interface ??

2001-06-06 Thread Taavi Talvik
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Soren Kristensen wrote: If you will give all neccessary documentation and microcode (for chipsets), then it is definitely interesting. I have unsuccessfully discussed writing drivers for ADSL cards with several vendors (alcatel, adi, efficient) but no one have not had courage