Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 04:57:35 -0800 From: "Leo Krajewski" <krajewskil@my-Deja.com> To: "Ugen Antsilevitch" <ugen@xonix.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bell Atlantic InfoSpeed DSL (PPPoE) Message-ID: <GMPEACKHCNOMOBAA@my-deja.com>
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http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/pppoe.html -- On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:20:32 Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: >Well..actually i am up against the same thing. >First of all - i have an external Westell modem, but judjing by software they make >you install on windows there is PPP other Ethernet. I don't have a static IP address and >the modem would not respond to regular DHCP. So i assume that ppp other ethernet has to >be there. Btw where can i find this handbook on ppp other ethernet? > >Thanx! >--Ugen > >courtney@whtz.com wrote: > >> you shouldn't have to run PPPoE at all. I have a static IP address on my >> DSL circuit at home, with a 3Com 3C905 series NIC card, I just installed >> the NIC like any other and configured the IP information and I was up and >> running. There is no need to use PPP at all, the DSL modem acts as a >> network interface. There shouldn't be any traps that you could fall in, as >> this is all pretty much straight forward. >> >> Bernie >> >> "Leo Krajewski" <krajewskil@my-Deja.com> on 02/19/2000 11:31:08 PM >> >> >> >> To: questions@freebsd.org >> >> cc: (bcc: Bernard Courtney/z100) >> >> >> >> Subject: Re: Bell Atlantic InfoSpeed DSL (PPPoE) >> >> >> Thanks for the quick reply. I had a sneeking feeling that I was making >> some bonehead mistake. Perhaps a couple more questions might point to my >> errors. >> >> First, does the sample ppp.conf in the PPPoE section of the handbook work >> as is (with the obvious user id & passwd changes, of course)? What changes >> have people made to it for their setups to work? Any obvious (or not so) >> traps people have fallen into? >> >> Second, what should the ifconfig_xx line in rc.conf read for the NIC being >> used for the DSL connection? >> >> Thanks again for the help. I'm relatively new to FreeBSD so this has been >> a learning experience. :) >> >> Leo >> >> -- >> >> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:07:38 courtney wrote: >> > >> > >> >you shouldn't have to run anything special, BA infospeed is just a NIC >> card >> >with the external blue or white DSL modem i have it all set up and working >> >just fine. >> > >> > >> >bernie >> > >> > >> > >> >> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- >> Share what you know. Learn what you don't. >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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