From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 19:54:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F78A37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsidian.sentex.ca (obsidian.sentex.ca [64.7.128.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE9C43E42 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by obsidian.sentex.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g772sXmC031004; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:54:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806225428.04507778@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:58:07 -0400 To: David Banning From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020806224811.A1776@skytrackercanada.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca> <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> <20020806183300.M10093@skytrackercanada.com> <5.1.1.6.0.20020806203113.03d76b08@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (obsidian/20020220) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=7.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.31 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message