From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 4:31:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AB337B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0NCVD741544; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:31:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3A6D7991.158FFDAF@thehousleys.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:31:13 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julien Pham Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL and PPPoE/PPTP References: <01ce01c08535$306e4db0$a000a8bf@julien> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julien Pham wrote: > > I have an ADSL modem Alcatel Home touch which is connected to my computer > with an ethernet card (not USB then). My ISP accept both PPPoE and PPTP but > have said that with this modem I can only use PPPoE. > What do you think of it, and if it is true, where can I find info on how to > configure a PPTP connection under FreeBSD ? Because I have seen only for > PPPoE... I have found something to configure a PPTP under linux, but do u > think it will work under FreeBSD ? > The first place to always look is in the man page, "man 8 ppp", there are examples there. Secondly you could try the handbook, /usr/share/doc/handbook or http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook (specifically http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/pppoe.html). Lastly there is a good article on DaemonNews, http://www.daemonnews.org/200101/pppoe.html Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message