From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 21:48:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26115 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freight.msn.bc.ca (pc-21656.bc.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.126.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26046 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (bpepa@localhost) by freight.msn.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA26358; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:50:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:50:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Pepa To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > Does anyone use ADSL on thier FreeBSD machines. I have talked to our > > local telephone company (www.bcteladvanced.com) and they said you have to > > login to the service like you would with PPP. They only support MacOS, > > WinNT and Win95. > > > > Does anyone have a similar setup in their area and is their a way to login > > to the service from FreeBSD? They using DHCP for their IP addresses. I > > could use my mac as a router but I'd rather not. > > ADSL in the United States is evolving so you have an independent box that > has an DSL port and an ethernet port. > > Can you get more details from the provider? What type of device is it? An > internal card or standalone box? They told me it is a ADSL modem (external standalone like you regular 28.8 modem) that has the copper RJ-11 phone jack which spilts into to lines: 1 RJ-11 Phone line for standard telephone calls and the other is a RJ-45 10BaseT Ethernet connection for your computer. 3 Jacks total. They won't tell me much more about it... Talk to you soon, Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message