Subject: RE: PPPoA?
To: 'Nick Hudson' <skrll@excite.co.uk>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/02/2001 10:19:55
	Well, if it may help any, my home setup (New Haven, CT, USA) I'm
using John Sinteur's NetBSD/i386 (prebuilt) Firewall (www.dubbele.com), and
use the free PPPoE driver from Roaring Penguin
(www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe) to connect to the net.
	I guess the question is, will the USB device work under 1.4.2, or
how hard would it e to add it. What's nice about John's firewall setup is,
he already did all the work of tweaking it to work as a firewall/router.
	Maybe use that for a base of your firewall need?

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Nick Hudson [mailto:skrll@excite.co.uk]
-> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:20 AM
-> To: dme@dme.org; Ignatios Souvatzis
-> Cc: Nick Holmes; tech-net@netbsd.org
-> Subject: Re: PPPoA?
-> 
-> 
-> 
-> On 02 Feb 2001 10:22:43 +0000, dme@dme.org wrote:
-> 
-> >  * ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de [2001-02-02 09:49:33]
-> >  > > I have a requirement to route my home network over a 
-> PPPoA link -
-> running 
-> >  > > of a USB DSL modem.
-> >  > 
-> >  > PPP over ATM?
-> >  
-> >  I'd guess `yes'.  The `domestic' BT ADSL service in the 
-> UK is provided
-> >  as PPP over ATM.  There are two flavours (each with 
-> slight variants):
-> >     - ethernet delivery (originally three boxes - 
-> splitter, ATM router
-> >       and IP rotuter, now just one box and a new wall unit 
-> (splitter in
-> >       wall unit, box is ATM router, IP router and hub),
-> >     - USB delivery (splitter in wall unit, Alcatel 
-> `stingray' USB<->ATM
-> >       box).
-> >  
-> >  The ethernet service is offered in a variety of forms - 
-> NAT, non-NAT,
-> >  512kbps, 1Mbps, 2Mbps downstream, all 256kbps upstream.
-> >  
-> >  The USB service is offered with a single IP address (non-NAT) at
-> >  512kbps downstream, 256kbps upstream.
-> >  
-> >  All of these are known as BT IPstream products.  There is an ATM
-> >  terminated service (Datastream), but I'm unsure if that is
-> >  commercially launched yet.
-> >  
-> >  Almost all ADSL activity in the UK is through these BT wholesale
-> >  services.
-> >  
-> >  To get the USB service working under NetBSD we'd need:
-> >     - a driver for the Alcatel USB device,
-> >     - an ATM implementation, with glue to the above,
-> >     - a PPPoA implementation.
-> >  
-> >  My company (http://www.thus.net) previously offered to 
-> provide support
-> >  for NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux driver developers for 
-> the Alcatel,
-> >  but noone stepped forward[1].
-> 
-> Where on earth did you offer? I'm a Demon customer and 
-> NetBSD developer and
-> I'd love to see an Alcatel Speedtouch driver for NetBSD. 
-> Last rumour I heard
-> was that BT put a stop to the OpenSource driver being developed by an
-> Alcatel engineer. Alcatel are currently saying there are 
-> going to offer a
-> closed source driver - I guess for Linux only.
-> 
-> Nick
-> --
-> aka skrll@netbsd.org, nick@nthcliff.demon.co.uk
-> 
-> 
-> 
-> 
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