Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 03:05:44 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Tetsuya Watanabe <tetsuya1@prodigy.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL question after I searched mail archives and still have questions re DSL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9906270258390.23119-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <37724073.CA69987B@softweyr.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't know about the ADSL, it just sees a router. Your "ADSL > modem" is really an ethernet to ATM router, and should answer the DHCP > request for you. Doesn't it? Probably not. I understand most of the cable modems work that way, but even the one I've seen still then acts as a DHCP *server* to the PC. As far as cheap-o ADSL services go, they usually give you a bridge (Westell, Alcatel) which is a completely dumb piece of hardware that just bridges every ethernet frame to the DSLAM and beyond. If that's the case, then you need to listen to whatever some dhcp server behind the ISP's router is handing out (the router is likely set up as a DHCP helper). That's at least how they do it here in Bell Atlantic land... Another thing to note is that somewhere along the line they may be filtering by MAC address and they may have forgot to get that info from you. Here you cannot do a thing until they've stuck your MAC address in the switch that aggregates all the customers together... Good luck, Charles > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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