Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:17:13 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: "ar" <aranenko@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install FreeBSD using PPPoE Message-ID: <20040117191713.411c69cf.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:36:45 -0600 "ar" <aranenko@hotmail.com> wrote: > Okay Randy, thanks a lot! > > First, yes, I have not received your previous message for some reason. No idea why it wouldn't have been delivered. Just an email mystery I guess. > Second, the other site you have pointed out: > http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net is accessible. > > Third, the PPPoE connect works perfect, when configured the way you > described. > > Although I have not finished the installation yet, I hope I will get > through this (if not I will ask again :) ). But in general, all this > excellently works. > > Here is what I did not get through myself: why would I need to > initialize ppp? The answer is: to bring up that command line interface > ppp on the next available tty and be able to enter ppp.conf lines such > as real PPPoE device, authname, authkey, etc. > > Thank you very much again for your help! > > Alex. Great! Glad to hear it worked for you and you'll soon be exploring FreeBSD. And, maybe to head off a few questions ... the reason that this is not part of the Handbook is that it is technically a supported method used by Sysinstall. It is a bit of an ugly workaround but it does work. Generally, people with a PPPoE connection will download the ISO image and burn their own CDROM for installation. The case where a person needs to install directly via PPPoE only comes up a few times a year. Best of luck and remember to have fun! Randy --
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