From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 11:15:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA33A37B443 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3KID5p25639; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:13:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001301c0c9c5$6476ee30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , References: <000a01c0c9c3$1cb1e480$fa0a5542@rjstech.com> Subject: Re: PPPoE questions Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:11:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? I believe the version without the trailing colon is the proper way. > for that matter I have seen the following line typed two ways > set authname YOURLOGINNAME > vs > set authname YOURLOGINNAME@DSLPROVIDER.TLD > > which is correct? Depends on your ISP. Some ISPs just require a username, some require a whole e-mail address. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message