From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 19:44:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395C937B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b-san-onnet.worldcom.com [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512F643EE6 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from me3 (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.58.59.27]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBK3iWQP059489; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <045601c2a7da$19ad6ba0$3224200a@me3> From: "Brian" To: "Darren Pilgrim" , "Andrew" Cc: References: <20021220111155.K38789-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> <3E028EB2.4020805@pantherdragon.org> Subject: Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol. Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:44:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tis a good reason to use one of the pppoe speaking routers/nat boxes. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Pilgrim" To: "Andrew" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:29 PM Subject: Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol. > Andrew wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Asker wrote: > >>The modem can be configured to use PPPoE or PPTP protocol for making the > >>connection with my Internet Servise Provider. > > > > Well if the modem does PPPoE itself (and preusmably NAT) then you need no > > speical support from the OS. From its poitn of view you are just conencted > > via ethernet. > > If you need the machine to do PPPoE, ppp supports PPPoE. For this to > work, though, you need netgraph, which isn't in GENERIC. You will need > to make a custom kernel and build your own set of custom floppies. > > > 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