Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:19:25 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030710151818.011b1bd8@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20030710210621.GC652@gw.tex.bogus>
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I don't know what version of FreeBSD you are using, but PPPoE has been available on FreeBSD for quite some time. A quick search on Google with "PPPoE on FreeBSD" pulled up dozens of sites that show how-to's on PPPoE with FreeBSD. Peter At 09:06 PM 7/10/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Hello to all, > >I'm using FreeBSD for almost 4 years and I will continue with it because >I can't find better. > >I subscribed to a ADSL connection in Portugal that supports only PPPoE >(and not PPPoA). > >Almost everyone in Portugal uses only 2 modems (supported by ISPs): >Siemens Santis USB and Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB. > >Linux people has already support to Alcatel USB modems with PPPoE >connections and FreeBSD still lacks of PPPoE support. > >I don't like Linux so, to solve my home network problem, I install a >Windows machine to share the Internet (ooops!) across my LAN. > >The new Speedtouch 1.2 beta2 driver >(http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html), >already support Bridging 1483 mode (PPPoE support) in pppoa3 but without >use in FreeBSD. > >Please read the following thread to see some solutions for implementing >PPPoE in FreeBSD. > >http://www.mail-archive.com/speedtouch@ml.free.fr/msg04514.html > >For what you can see in this thread: > >"...that task is simply a matter of two or three #ifdefs for each >BSD flavor, but nobody seems volunteering to accomplish it." > >I'm just a FreeBSD user not a programmer or hacker, so I can only help >FreeBSD community asking you to try to implement PPPoE in FreeBSD so >everyone uses it. > > > >Thanks very much for your great work, > > Nuno Teixeira > >-- > >/* >PGP fingerprint: >C6D1 06ED EB54 A99C 6B14 6732 0A5D 810D 727D F6C6 >*/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Anything below this line, is considered a signature line. If you do not know what a signature is within an email STOP here and do not read any further. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. (NOTE: UCE is Unsolicited Commercial Email also known as SPAM or junk mail).
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