From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 18: 5:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB17137B405 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id AF4AC55407; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9C551610; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Kelsey Cummings Cc: Nathan , Subject: Re: xdsl In-Reply-To: <20010703175931.L64435@sonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-07-03, Kelsey Cummings scribbled: # Typically, your DSL 'modem' is an ethernet bridge. In which case the more # important question is, "does fbsd support my ethernet card" because the # bridge is transparent to the OS. Noting your pacbell.net email address # I'll assume that you're going to need to figure out how to get PPPoE # up and running too. # # (Sorry, can't help you there.) One thing you can look at is to get a DSL/Cable router that handles the PPPoE side of things... that way you can also have a small amount of protection if you decide to use as a mini-firewall. -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message