From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 15:06:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10066 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09971 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:05:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18115; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:35:41 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA23620; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:35:41 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980212093541.28061@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:35:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Mark E. Monninger" , Ben Pepa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Mark E. Monninger on Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 08:16:07AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 February 1998 at 8:16:07 -0700, Mark E. Monninger wrote: > I run FreeBSD into a US West dsl line in the Phoenix area. They use > Pairgain EtherPhone boxes. It has an RJ-45 ethernet conection that > you connect your ethernet card to. It functions like a hub. There is > no special config on the FBSD side. My ISP uses dhcp for IP address > assignment so it's necessary to run a dhcp client but that is no > problem. I also have the firewall enabled and use it with natd as a > gateway between the dsl line and the other systems (NT and Win95) on > my home lan. It works great. The FBSD box is an old 486/33 system I > put together from spare bits and seems to be perfectly adequate for > the task. I use an el-cheapo generic NE2000 compatible ethernet > card. > The only problem you may have (as I did) is that the install techs > don't know anything except Mac/NT/Win95. You may have to boot one of > those for them. The guy who did the install for me had his own > laptop (W95) that he tested the link with. It took me about a half > hour after he left to get it running on the FBSD box. What did you have to do to get it running? It would be nice to have this information available for other people who are thinking about connecting. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message