From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 10:30:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [209.167.225.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4124637B424 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddavid_3@yahoo.com) Received: from david.thecafe.ca (H130.C193.tor.velocet.net [216.138.193.130]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 87D9F19A015; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Reply-To: ddavid_3@yahoo.com To: "Hervey Wilson" , Subject: Re: PPPOE &ADSL on FreeBSD Tutorial Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:22:37 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <01042112420600.00300@david.thecafe.ca> <004501c0ca86$be65b9a0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> In-Reply-To: <004501c0ca86$be65b9a0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042113223701.00300@david.thecafe.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 21 April 2001 13:16, Hervey Wilson wrote: > 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 ? When I first began using *DSL it was indeed just plain old DHCP through an external "modem", at some point in time approx. 1.5 years ago, ISP's ( at this time Sympatico for me) began using a login system called PPPOE which of coarse required the neccessary program to login with. Indeed, now many different *DSL providers, do provide different connection setup's, DHCP ( very rare now) PPPOE and, as with your setup, a straight IP connection. My present ISP, DSL.CA, provides 3 different setups', PPPOE, PPPOE with a static IP, and a straight IP address setup. ( mind, it's a $5 ca extra charge for the static IP) Mind you, if i may "basically" state, PPPOE is just another form of DHCP, but other technically orientated people may have a better description for it. If anything, I would say you are quite fortunate in not have to deal with PPPOE at all, especially in the initial implimentation :) David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message