From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 11:13:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from truemetal.org (truemetal.org [206.168.16.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3975537B422 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from universe@truemetal.org) Received: (qmail 7163 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2001 18:09:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO truemetal.org) (213.23.52.185) by truemetal.org with SMTP; 20 Apr 2001 18:09:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3AE07B90.E8205FDE@truemetal.org> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:10:24 +0200 From: universe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE questions References: <000a01c0c9c3$1cb1e480$fa0a5542@rjstech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ppp is very picky about its config file. i've had a similar problem until i realized its missing some tabs. try default: set device PPPoE:xl1 set ... the login name depends on what your isp assigned you. let me know if it works. markus Carlos Andrade wrote: > > I have been trying to get PPPoE to work on my rig at home > PII 400 Mhz, 64 megs of Ram, FreeBSD 4.2 > And when I try to invoke ppp, I get a error about a bad colon, to which I go > "er what?". The line that is referenced is the following > > set device PPPoE:nic's name > > but I have seen this line typed two ways : > set device PPPoE:xl1 > vs > set device PPPoE:xl1: > > which is correct? > > for that matter I have seen the following line typed two ways > set authname YOURLOGINNAME > vs > set authname YOURLOGINNAME@DSLPROVIDER.TLD > > which is correct? > > ---- > Carlos A. Andrade > IS Manager > RJS Technologies > 915.845.5228 ext 13 915.845.2119 fax > carlos@rjstech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message