Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:58:07 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806225428.04507778@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020806224811.A1776@skytrackercanada.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca> <minqkuoj4uhhbk39gu68uu7hlt0639p2tk@4ax.com> <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> <mailman.1028223962.54252.fquestions-l@lists.sentex.ca> <minqkuoj4uhhbk39gu68uu7hlt0639p2tk@4ax.com> <20020806183300.M10093@skytrackercanada.com> <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 10:48 PM 06/08/2002 -0400, David Banning wrote:
> >
> > Put it in regular bridge mode and do the PPPoE on your FreeBSD box. If the
> > GVC people or your ISP are not sure what you want just tell them that you
> > want to setup the modem so that the PPPoE is on on a windows box with
> > Enternet or RASPPPoE. Then on your FreeBSD box, use PPPoE.
>That is what I am doing right now. It works almost non-stop.
>Then, about every 2 months or so, it stops working. I can power off/on the
>modem and then it's ok again. GVC tells me that it is looking
>to speak to windows at that point. Specifically, they say,
>it's telling windows to send an inquiry to the user
>like "the dsl connection is down. reconnect?" Since it is connected to
If you have the modem in bridge mode, it will not do any sort of PPPoE
authentication. It is simply a bridge that passes ethernet back and forth.
So it doest care about "DSL down reconnect ?" etc... You only need the
PPPoE working on your FreeBSD box not in your modem as well.
---Mike
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