From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 12: 0:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0135337B9FC for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:00:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26959; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:28 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:28 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bsdkid@pacbell.net Subject: Re: Pac$Bell Internet DSL howto In-Reply-To: <200003311841.KAA40995@medusa.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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