From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 11:15:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cornflake.nickelkid.com (cornflake.nickelkid.com [216.116.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F92637B5D4 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by cornflake.nickelkid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20751 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Quick PPPoE question 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 Can anyone explain why I need an IP address assigned to my Ethernet NIC (even if it's just a dummy/RFC 1918 address) before I can start a PPPoE session through the interface? Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message