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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:02:50 -0500
From:      Skip Ford <skip@menantico.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0R && ADSL
Message-ID:  <20090110210250.GA894@menantico.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090110152531.GA32657@rebelion.Sisis.de>
References:  <20090109083642.GA7507@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090110105455.GA932@menantico.com> <20090110152531.GA32657@rebelion.Sisis.de>

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Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Saturday, January 10, 2009 a las 05:54:56AM -0500, Skip Ford escribió:
> > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > What kind of software I could use in FreeBSD? There is some port
> > > net/rp-pppoe but the man pages speaks about incoming connections?
> > > What else?
> > 
> > Are you having problems using ppp(8)?  PPPoE has been just another
> > dialup connection for years.  Example configurations are available in
> > /usr/share/examples/ppp.
> > 
> > If you really want a port, net/mpd is the way to go.  ppp(8) is userland
> > while mpd is kernel.  I wish it was in base.
> 
> Thanks for all the hints. The problem was that for many years I have
> only used 'normal' pppd connections (over modems, ISDN or UMTS), but
> never PPPoE. So I went to the ports and did search 'name=pppoe' and
> ended up in net/rp-pppoe and was confused. It seems that just ppp(8) is
> what I have to use. Thx again.

Yeah, pppd(8) doesn't do PPPoE AFAIK.  In addition to the examples I
already posted, there's a PPPoE section in the handbook which covers
everything instead of just ppp.conf:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoe.html

Good luck.

-- 
Skip



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