Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:08:31 -0400 From: "William Wong" <willwong@anime.ca> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Quick PPPoE question Message-ID: <003501bfc360$56066680$0300a8c0@anime.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005211413340.20733-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com>
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You don't need to assign an ip. Just make sure the interface is up. ifconfig device up. When you assign an ip the interface is brought up too. - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: Quick PPPoE question > > Can anyone explain why I need an IP address assigned to my Ethernet NIC > (even if it's just a dummy/RFC 1918 address) before I can start a PPPoE > session through the interface? > > Cheers, > Mick > > > > 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
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