Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:16:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Mark E. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com> To: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980211080010.27094A-100000@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210214708.26338A-100000@freight.msn.bc.ca>
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I run FreeBSD into a US West dsl line in the Phoenix area. They use Pairgain EtherPhone boxes. It has an RJ-45 ethernet conection that you connect your ethernet card to. It functions like a hub. There is no special config on the FBSD side. My ISP uses dhcp for IP address assignment so it's necessary to run a dhcp client but that is no problem. I also have the firewall enabled and use it with natd as a gateway between the dsl line and the other systems (NT and Win95) on my home lan. It works great. The FBSD box is an old 486/33 system I put together from spare bits and seems to be perfectly adequate for the task. I use an el-cheapo generic NE2000 compatible ethernet card. The only problem you may have (as I did) is that the install techs don't know anything except Mac/NT/Win95. You may have to boot one of those for them. The guy who did the install for me had his own laptop (W95) that he tested the link with. It took me about a half hour after he left to get it running on the FBSD box. There are several interface boxes for dsl. US West is changing from the PairGain to something else, I hear. As far as I know, almost all of them use a standard ethernet connection to the computer. I doubt that there would be any problems using dsl and FBSD. My line is only 192K but is sure a lot faster than the 28.8 dial-up that it replaced. So far I'm very happy with the whole set-up. Feel free to email with other questions. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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