From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 9:59:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB70837B401; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D3343EE8; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699E81005F; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EABDAA98; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:58:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E035A54.7080705@pantherdragon.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:58:44 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol. References: <3E02DCDD.29722C11@nospam.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > Ok, so in my situation the installation of FreeBSD is impossible. > What do you think about changing GENERIC or just the kernel in installation > floppies in the future releases of FreeBSD? I think it will be very useful > because ADSL (therefore PPPoE protocol) is very frequent method of > connecting with Internet Service Provider in our days. Read the other peoples' posts. It seems I was incorrect in my statement. Despite the lack of a set of kernel modules on the floppies, PPPoE is still supported. Randy Pratt posted a link to a doc he wrote on getting PPPoE working within sysinstall. > P.S. FTP installation use much less internet traffic than 4 huge ISO files' > downloading. Depending on what you're installing, yes. Personally, I prefer to have everything local during an install. I've never liked the idea of connecting to the internet as root, and that's exactly what you do when doing an FTP install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message