From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 22:45:46 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 920F237B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0944143EEC for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92E81005F; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:45:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA696AA98; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:45:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E02BC6F.60501@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:45:03 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Pratt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Andrew Subject: Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol. References: <20021220002519.2f3fb58a.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Randy Pratt wrote: > Darren wrote: >>Andrew wrote: >>>On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Asker wrote: >>> >>>>The modem can be configured to use PPPoE or PPTP protocol for making the >>>>connection with my Internet Servise Provider. >>> >>>Well if the modem does PPPoE itself (and preusmably NAT) then you need no >>>speical support from the OS. From its poitn of view you are just conencted >>>via ethernet. >> >>If you need the machine to do PPPoE, ppp supports PPPoE. For this to >>work, though, you need netgraph, which isn't in GENERIC. You will need >>to make a custom kernel and build your own set of custom floppies. > > Happily, kernel configuration is no longer necessary for PPPoE. If the > necessary netgraph support is not built into the kernel, it will be > dynamically loaded by ppp (See handbook section on PPPoE). Yes, but with floppies, the kernel modules aren't available, are they? Am I missing something? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message