From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 16:17:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBB916A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7850443D48 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:16:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user68.net585.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([65.41.6.68] helo=kt.weeble.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Ai0cc-00006g-00; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:16:58 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:17:13 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: "ar" Message-Id: <20040117191713.411c69cf.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install FreeBSD using PPPoE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:17:04 -0000 On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:36:45 -0600 "ar" 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 --