Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:35:58 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPOE &ADSL on FreeBSD Tutorial Message-ID: <008c01c0ca89$86ad79a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <01042112420600.00300@david.thecafe.ca> <004501c0ca86$be65b9a0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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> 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 ? Yes. Some DSL ISPs use PPPoE, some use a DHCP setup like most Cable providers do. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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