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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To:        Kelsey Cummings <kgc@sonic.net>
Cc:        Nathan <natefox@pacbell.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: xdsl
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107031748460.50766-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010703175931.L64435@sonic.net>

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On 2001-07-03, Kelsey Cummings scribbled:

# Typically, your DSL 'modem' is an ethernet bridge.  In which case the more
# important question is, "does fbsd support my ethernet card" because the
# bridge is transparent to the OS.  Noting your pacbell.net email address
# I'll assume that you're going to need to figure out how to get PPPoE
# up and running too.
#
# (Sorry, can't help you there.)

One thing you can look at is to get a DSL/Cable router that handles the
PPPoE side of things... that way you can also have a small amount of
protection if you decide to use as a mini-firewall.

-- 
Linh Pham
[lplist@closedsrc.org]

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