Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:42:19 -0800 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Pac$Bell Internet DSL howto Message-ID: <38DE3DEB.9A1D5FCD@quack.kfu.com>
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A friend of mine just recently got the $39/mo DSL deal Pac$Bell Internet is offering. There was a big enough hiccup that I thought I would document it for the archives. The "technical" folks at Pac$Bell said that they use DHCP, but in fact they don't. They supply windows and Mac software (and aparently Linux as well) that you are supposed to use to hook up. In actual fact, this software does nothing more than PPPoE. DHCP doesn't enter in to it. Anyway, the procedure in section 15.4 of the handbook mostly works just fine (I did not have to include the NETGRAPH_PPPOE option, as netgraph is now smart enough to load its own modules). One thing I found necessary was an ifconfig_xl1="up" line in /etc/rc.conf to "up" the interface before ppp would work. There is a chicken-and-egg problem that I could not surmount, however. In order to activate service, you have to hook up in order to visit their website and get the username and password you will use later as your authname and authkey (you cannot do this from any other ISP). It is unknown how to do this first-time hookup. We worked around it by having the Pac$Bell guy use his machine to visit the website and get the username and password. You could also, I suppose, use the supplied windows software once to establish an account and then use FreeBSD from then on. Of course, IMHO the next thing that needs to happen is that PPPoE support needs to get into the mpd-netgraph port, so that the whole gizmo can live in the kernel and cut out all that context switching. Archie? :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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