Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:28 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bsdkid@pacbell.net Subject: Re: Pac$Bell Internet DSL howto Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003310958440.773-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <200003311841.KAA40995@medusa.kfu.com>
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Nick Sayer wrote: > vince@oahu.wurldlink.net wrote: > > > This link should help you... > > > >http://sympaticousers.org/faq/freebsd_howto.htm > > This page is mostly good, except for a couple of things: > > 1. As of 4.0-RELEASE, at least, NETGRAPH_.* options are no longer > necessary, as netgraph can load its own modules. > > 2. Either "ddial" or "auto" is a better ppp_mode than "background". > Same with the manual command line. Hmmm, interesting... I've been thinking about what jmb mentioned the other day. Suppose you had PPPoE on a FreeBSD system and wanted to do NAT, can you get by with one NIC since with normal ethernet and Static IP's, you can just make the internal LAN IP as a alias of the interface and have the primary set to some bogus value and then PPPoE can change it? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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