Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:20:24 +0200 From: Asker <noreply@nospam.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Subject: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with PPPoE or PPTP protocol. Message-ID: <3E03C1D8.19727546@nospam.net>
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>>>>>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. >> >> Ok, so in my situation the installation of FreeBSD is impossible. >> What do you think about changing GENERIC or just the kernel in installation >> floppies in the future releases of FreeBSD? I think it will be very useful >> because ADSL (therefore PPPoE protocol) is very frequent method of >> connecting with Internet Service Provider in our days. > > Read the other peoples' posts. It seems I was incorrect in my > statement. Despite the lack of a set of kernel modules on the floppies, > PPPoE is still supported. Randy Pratt posted a link to a doc he wrote > on getting PPPoE working within sysinstall. Ok, I found Randy Pratt's message in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, thank you and thanks to Randy. I will try his method. But I think it will be a great idea to add PPPoE into the sysinstall menu. Then the method will be no to so tricky and abnormal. >> P.S. FTP installation use much less internet traffic than 4 huge ISO files' >> downloading. > > Depending on what you're installing, yes. Personally, I prefer to have > everything local during an install. I've never liked the idea of > connecting to the internet as root, and that's exactly what you do when > doing an FTP install. I partially agree with you, "to have everything local" is better but if it was possibly I was not asked the question about PPPoE/PPTP and FTP installation. Also I don't think FTP installation through the internet is as security risky as you draws. You have no port listening during the installation, you use just FTP client to download the files. What kind of attack could you be exposed and what root's role will be? Only DoS attacks I think, some kind of flood for example. And if you download ISO files the chances of the DoS are worsen? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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