From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 3 15:13: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.nj.home.com (ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FE614C15 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garycor@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.3.185.85]) by mail.rdc1.nj.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991003221259.GOUW9731.mail.rdc1.nj.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:12:59 -0700 Message-ID: <37F7D647.F8431B5C@home.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 18:18:47 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Lovett Cc: High Voltage , FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: @Home Connect. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Lovett wrote: No, you're not wrong, but you can make it even simpler. While @home uses DHCP to simplify the setup of Windoze boxes, they actually assign you a static IP address. If you setup your Ethernet card with the IP address (and DNS, etc.) that they tell you on the sheet they give you, FreeBSD will work just fine with @home. Gary > you should just be able to hook your system up and use DHCP to get your > IP.. i don't believe that @Home uses a login program to authenticate > yourself... > > if i'm wrong, please feel free to correct me on this. > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, High Voltage wrote: > > > Does anyone know where I can find info on how to set FreeBSD 3.3 > > Stable up for a @Home connect? I'm getting @Home installed this Friday > > and I'd like to be prepared. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message