Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:35:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Mark E. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com>, Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980212093541.28061@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980211080010.27094A-100000@usr02.primenet.com>; from Mark E. Monninger on Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 08:16:07AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210214708.26338A-100000@freight.msn.bc.ca> <Pine.BSI.3.96.980211080010.27094A-100000@usr02.primenet.com>
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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
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