From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 13: 8:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts1.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0172E37B984 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 13:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willwong@anime.ca) Received: from magus ([64.228.64.199]) by tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000521200831.GOPD15500.tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net@magus>; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:08:31 -0400 Message-ID: <003501bfc360$56066680$0300a8c0@anime.ca> From: "William Wong" To: "Jasper O'Malley" , References: Subject: Re: Quick PPPoE question Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:08:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't need to assign an ip. Just make sure the interface is up. ifconfig device up. When you assign an ip the interface is brought up too. - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: Quick PPPoE question > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message