From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 11:12:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DE037B405 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:12:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA6E43F85 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-24-59-227-242.rochester.rr.com [24.59.227.242]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1LJC9b1020488 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:12:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 96067 invoked by uid 85); 21 Feb 2003 19:12:52 -0000 Received: from localhost.lan.27in.tv (HELO 27in.tv) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.lan.27in.tv with SMTP; 21 Feb 2003 19:12:51 -0000 Received: from 216.153.203.82 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www.27in.tv with HTTP; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:12:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2155.216.153.203.82.1045854771.squirrel@www.27in.tv> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:12:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Verizon DSL & FreeBSD? From: "C J Michaels" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some time in the recent past John E. Martin scribbled: > > >> Anyone know if you can get Verizon DSL working with >> FreeBSD? > > No problem at all. > > Verizon DSL uses straight DHCP. No PPPoE involved at all. At least, > here in West Los Angeles that is the case. This is not entirely true. If you are in a former BellAtlantic region (east coast) Verizon DSL uses PPPoE. On that note, the ppp client that comes with FreeBSD works perfectly fine. I've had one setup for a family member for a couple years now w/o any problems. > > > Peace, > -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message