From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 11:53:56 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 6B06B37B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07974; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:53:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." To: Charlie Schloemer Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Usselmann.M@gmx.net Subject: Re: DSL access with PPPoE In-Reply-To: <200009201554.KAA29162@smtp.intop.net> 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 no... many ADSL providers use PPP over ethernet for authentication. The DSL modem will not perform the PPP, in order to do this in hardware, you need a DSL router, such as the Linksys Etherfast DSL router, which has PPPoE support. This is what I have at my home ADSL through Bell Atlantic, anyway. Unfortunately, I cannot answer the poster's original question, as I've tried this with FreeBSD and eventually gave up and bought the Etherfast. Sorry. > > Hmm... I don't think the situation is as complex as you might think. > The external "modem" does perform routing/gateway functions in > order to convert 10baseT to whatever signalling is used on an > ADSL line. If you plugged your DSL modem into one NIC on your > FreeBSD box, and plugged the other BSD NIC into a hub, your > internal boxes need not be aware of how they're accessing the > internet; all they need to know is that IP's they don't explicitly have > a route for should be directed to the internal address of your > FreeBSD machine. This shouldn't be any more complicated than > configuring ethernet cards and TCP/IP on the internal machines to > use your default gateway (internal FreeBSD address). On your > FreeBSD box, even, there is no need for configuring PPP.... your > FreeBSD is merely routing packets between its two Ethernet > interfaces, and natd can perform the masquerading functions here > for you if your DSL modem won't do it. At any rate, only your DSL > modem has to worry with how to change things from Ethernet > to/from PPP, and it's probably in a big black box that only your ISP > can configure. I can send a diagram of how this works, if it would > help. > > GPRW, > > -Charlie > > (Actually, GPRW doesn't mean a damn thing, HTH. :-) > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message