Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Slaytor
Currently using a zoom x4 modem in half bridge mode with 3.6 stable and haven't had any problems with dhclient obtaining a lease from the modem so maybe it's a 3.7 thing?. I'm just about to move to 3.7 current so this is worthwhile knowing. Many thanks. Nathan Gould wrote: Just for interest,

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-31 Thread Nathan Gould
Just for interest, I've set this up successfully using a Zoom X4 (about #45) using half bridge but originally ran into problems getting the OBSD box to collect the address via DHCP on the external interface when in this mode (no such problems without half-bridge). Eventually, narrowed it

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-30 Thread Dylan Smith
On Saturday 27 August 2005 16:36, Simon Morgan wrote: On 8/27/05, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been using an Alcatel Speedtouch usb modem with openbsd 3.7 with no problems. take a look...http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/prod330.htm How stable has it been? I use the same modem on a

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/15/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is welcome. To anyone who might be reading this in the future (Hi! Do you have robots and flying cars yet?), I've given up looking for a native solution. The state of ADSL hardware support under BSD

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread Jon Drews
On 8/27/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/15/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is welcome. To anyone who might be reading this in the future (Hi! Do you have robots and flying cars yet?), I've given up looking for a native

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/27/05, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been using an Alcatel Speedtouch usb modem with openbsd 3.7 with no problems. take a look...http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/prod330.htm How stable has it been? i have a few documents which explains how to get it working, if you want them mail

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread poncenby
Simon Morgan wrote: On 8/15/05, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is welcome. To anyone who might be reading this in the future (Hi! Do you have robots and flying cars yet?), I've given up looking for a native solution. The state of ADSL

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-25 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Jared, On 25/08/2005, at 1:55 PM, jared r r spiegel wrote: the thread has kinda gone this way already, but i believe the only way you can get true i don't have NAT on PPPoA, outside of getting a business class service plan (or anything else with static IP WAN and LAN allocations)

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-25 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:28:36 +1000, Shane J Pearson wrote: Hi Jared, On 25/08/2005, at 1:55 PM, jared r r spiegel wrote: the thread has kinda gone this way already, but i believe the only way you can get true i don't have NAT on PPPoA, outside of getting a business class service

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-24 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:54:46AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:20:33 +0100, Simon Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:34, J.C. Roberts wrote: You seem to be confused on your terms. The term PPPoA means Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-24 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:55:50PM -0600, jared r r spiegel wrote: take a phone cord coming in and an ethernet cord going out. it's possible i suppose there could be a please forget this train of thought. it may be possible to use OpenBSD as a *replacement* for the DSL

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-23 Thread Shane J Pearson
On 16/08/2005, at 6:54 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: Great info Simon, thank you. All the DSL modems I've seen here in the USA are ethernet based on the user side and as misfortune would have it, many providers *require* using their particular modem, so the user side of it is all that matters. It's

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-22 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:39:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must now stand corrected :-) In Britain (and probably the rest of Europe), that is precisely how ADSL is done - with ATM (rather than PPPoE, which is how it's done in North America). There are probably more ATM over

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Reyk Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-22 17:37]: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:39:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must now stand corrected :-) In Britain (and probably the rest of Europe), that is precisely how ADSL is done - with ATM (rather than PPPoE, which is how it's done

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, You beat me to the post. Unfortunately for me it doesn't support ADSL over ISDN. I'm one of those poor souls that uses iDSL to connect to the Big-I, to far away from the CO, then I could ditch my ancient iDSL router. you could give this one a try. http://accoom.kd85.com/ iDSL is very

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:34, J.C. Roberts wrote: You seem to be confused on your terms. The term PPPoA means Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (Asyncronous Transfer Mode). I seriously doubt you're running ADSL over ATM. ;-) Given that G.992 DSL protocols are all ATM physical layers, it's

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:20:33 +0100, Simon Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:34, J.C. Roberts wrote: You seem to be confused on your terms. The term PPPoA means Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (Asyncronous Transfer Mode). I seriously doubt you're running ADSL

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 16 August 2005 01:54 -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: Assuming you don't have a provider requirement of using their specified DSL modem, it may be possible to use OpenBSD as a *replacement* for the DSL modem itself. I know we've got some degree of ATM support but I don't know how well (or if)

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Slaytor
Another solution is to buy an ethernet modem that supports 'Half Bridge Mode'. I have two such units, an ADSL Nation X-Modem and a Zoom X4. When operating in half bridge the modem does all the PPPoA negotiation with the DSL provider to login and obtain and IP address. Once done it acts as a

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Slaytor
J.C. Roberts wrote: You seem to be confused on your terms. The term PPPoA means Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (Asyncronous Transfer Mode). I seriously doubt you're running ADSL over ATM. ;-) He could be right, in the UK PPPoE is very rare most providers instead prefer to present their

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Diana Eichert
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 16 August 2005 01:54 -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: Assuming you don't have a provider requirement of using their specified DSL modem, it may be possible to use OpenBSD as a *replacement* for the DSL modem itself. I know we've got some degree

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Slaytor
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 16 August 2005 16:49 +0100, Simon Slaytor wrote: There's a nice little racket on ebay.co.uk at the moment with someone selling 'Nortel E20B ethernet modems' and advertising them as operating in RFC1483 bridge mode i.e. PPPoE which they do. The seller does not

BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-15 Thread Simon Morgan
Hi, I have a PPPoA ADSL connection and would like to use FreeBSD or OpenBSD as a gateway/server and am looking for compatible hardware that would facilitate this. I'm specifically looking to avoid combination modem + routers and NAT and port forwarding in particular. This will be a pure routed IP

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:18:19 +0100, Simon Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a PPPoA ADSL connection and would like to use FreeBSD or OpenBSD as a gateway/server and am looking for compatible hardware that would facilitate this. I'm specifically looking to avoid combination modem +