ADSL with NIC

[Tom Samplonius]

  Ask your ISP.  Only they will know what works best with their DSLAMs.
Things are still far from standardized.

Tom


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Mark Bojara wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> Do you have any products you could advise for me on this?
> 
> Regards
> Mark
> 
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Tom Samplonius wrote:
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> >On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Mark Bojara wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I heard its possible to hook up a ADSL line (RJ11) directly into a NIC and
> >> it will operate with pppoed/ppp is this possible? Has anybody tried this?
> >...
> >
> >  An ethernet NIC will not work in this way.  However, you can purchase an
> >internal ADSL modem, which looks like a NIC to the operating system, but
> >has a phone line jack connector.
> >
> >  Beware of using a internal ADSL modem with FreeBSD.  Unless it
> >impersonates one of the ethernet chipsets perfectly, it won't work.
> >
> >Tom
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> >
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