From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 08:53:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 EEE5416A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (node-c-0ab6.a2000.nl [62.194.10.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AACD43D5F for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from frodo64bit (unknown [172.16.1.5]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C703170DE; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:53:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:52:55 +0200 Message-ID: <001001c42881$e3f234d0$050110ac@frodo64bit> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2739.300 Importance: Normal cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: What is PPPoed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:53:53 -0000 >Your wild guess makes no sense. >DSL lines are 24/7. >They are like leased line, with permanent connection. >Dailup service uses user ppp to 56k voice line style modem. This is not true. A friend of mine does not have a 24/7 DSL line. He needs to dial-in into his DSL connection before he has internet. Perhaps it does not exist in your country, or you are unaware of it, but I am sure that it does exists. Here is a quote from the first line of the pppoed man page: The pppoed utility listens to the given interface for PPP over Ethernet PPPoE) service request packets, and actions them by negotiating a ses- sion then invoking a ppp(8) program. I don't really find it that hard to understand though. It makes perfect sense with what I said. It uses PPP (Dial-in) over ethernet.(PPPoe) A modem does not use an ethernet line, as far as I know. (Modem is a simple telephone line, using RJ-11 connectors. Ethernet uses RJ-45 connectors) So it has to be a utility to dial into a permanent DSL line, since you can't dial into a cable modem. For a regular modem connection you just use the PPP utility. Jorn