From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 10:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E96437B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:15:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from chillipepper (chillipepper.dynamic-cast.com [192.168.1.1]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3LHFQC49522; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <004501c0ca86$be65b9a0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: , References: <01042112420600.00300@david.thecafe.ca> Subject: Re: PPPOE &ADSL on FreeBSD Tutorial Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:16:02 -0700 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 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good article, but there's something I just don't understand. I have been using ADSL for over 2 years now with an external modem connected to an ethernet card in my server. I have used Windows 2000 Server, Redhat Linux 5.2, 6.0, 6.2, 7.0 and now FreeBSD 4.2, 4.3 on the server. At no time have I *ever* consciously used PPPoE to make the connection to my ISP. For every one of the operating systems above, I have configured the ethernet adapter to simply use IP. For the first year, I used DHCP to assign IP address and now I have a static IP address. No PPPoE anywhere. What gives with all this PPPoE ? Is there something I'm missing here ? Is it only needed for some DSL setups ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" To: Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 9:42 AM Subject: PPPOE &ADSL on FreeBSD Tutorial > > I have not fully read the present thread on PPPOE on FreeBSD, so I'm > not sure if this is completely relevant, but this Tutorial has all the > help I have ever needed for connecting up with PPPOE: > > http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/ > > Cheers All, > > David > > > 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