From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 1:50:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854537B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5F243F93 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:50:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 43021 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2003 09:50:38 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Feb 2003 09:50:38 -0000 Message-ID: <3E48C700.9070304@liwing.de> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:48:48 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: c a r s t e n Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: getting DSL working References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG c a r s t e n wrote: > okay, retrying with no mime attachments. blew a synapse. > > i have installed FreeBSD 4.7, customised X a bit, installed xmms from > a port to start getting used to the system, and now i am ready for a > bigger challenge: an internet connection. > > i have the handbook, and have read and executed the section on PPPoE > (which is what i presume i need to do for getting DSL running). my > motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VRXP) has a built-in RealTek ethernet port > which seems to install correctly during bootup (how can i test it?), > and tells me that it is rl0. i am in germany and have a Telekom 300 > LAN DSL modem, and will be connecting to 1und1, in case anyone is > familiar with this setup. > > i have added the lines to the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf as in the manual (is > it out of date for 4.7, it describes 4.5), with a couple of minor > areas of uncertainty. the line: > > set device PPPoE:rl0 > > i presume this is what i do with this line. the other line i am not so > sure about is the: > > set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 > > it follows the manual, so i guess it is right. it just seems odd, > since this has nothing to do with my system. > anyway, running ppp from the commandline and then typing 'dial > myprovider' yields the logfile below. i replaced my userid with > XXXXX, but it is my login name in the ppp.conf file. > > if anyone could help me out, i would be very appreciative. > > as background, i am doing this to a large extent as a learning > experience, so while it would be great to be on the net with FreeBSD, > it is at least as important to me to learn and understand what is > going on. i simply have no networking experience, so i don't > understand the output, and as usual the man pages are great for people > who already know most of the stuff but just need to find an option or > two, but less good for someone who is learning from scratch. i am not > adverse to reading lots of material, as long as it is well written and > informative. any links and/or references would thus be appreciated > (the man pages will have to come later, once i have the fundamentals > understood). a good book would be a Good Thing. > > thanks in advance. > There's a good document (I'll assume you speak german if you are a customer of 1&1/DT), so I recommend to search on google for 'FreeBSD T-DSL'. There is a really good HowTo which guides you to the entire configuration process... Greetings, Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message