From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 19:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8A137BDA3 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:22:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@inbox.org) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00664; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:35:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:35:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." To: Tomaz Borstnar Cc: Linh Pham , dgason@mindspring.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP install using DSL? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000724224700.041fa990@193.189.189.100> 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 Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: > At 04:23 PM 24/07/00, Linh Pham wrote the following message: > > >A FreeBSD install over DSL is setup just like a regular network based > >install over FTP. The FreeBSD handbook (http://freebsd.org/handbook) will > >give you the information on doing FTP installs and possible FTP mirror > >sites. > Not if PPPoE is needed to use the DSL service. I'm not sure if PPPoE is > enabled in install setup. > If you're in this situation, and you're lazy like I am, you might want to consider a DSL router, such as the linksys etherfast (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20&grid=5). It'll connect to your DSL service automatically and give you a static private (192.168) address using NAT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message