Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:11:59 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <carlos@rjstech.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPoE questions Message-ID: <001301c0c9c5$6476ee30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <000a01c0c9c3$1cb1e480$fa0a5542@rjstech.com>
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> 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
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