From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 05:58:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21738A8B for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:58:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacks.1785@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-f196.google.com (mail-ia0-f196.google.com [209.85.210.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E408FC16 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f196.google.com with SMTP id j38so589111iad.7 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:58:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=L/8/z9UsarJGN4tSOQXX+/RvOcSADyeg/seW0ofnuGY=; b=gzswqwwE6p0bOdvxwVM9GFb1rD3GPAQALEtrpgE/kIw5XbmLYzt1G3bfm0o8+97ISu 3amQhrGnaPhXbA81l49tGSug3r3TKJ4TtTifCEoIcAXRb9RCVJyLygy6MxtJgV9MkOHt T3IkMv3tml/dqr7YecpYNYTx2Tq7SL5YKN+EriGtcA5xkK9MXxfHW9xug49OIhYgcZH9 n1NRlYyEYssRj1FA4aJl+Go9Sn0BGRN1yYV/oEVI4Kdf1Av7IMdFwIIr/kagbXfFtWlg xbAGnJii3czQRCi5PoySBJktsnrRFKyVHNqaijdMX8W0q5cTvxTt5G9dhGowkKxLvz8O IKow== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.46.134 with SMTP id v6mr515899igm.55.1350453531988; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.11.166 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:58:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6AF968FA-4D15-4186-80B5-F65AD642D097@exonetric.com> References: <5FA507B7-F634-4293-8529-88B5131CDDE9@exonetric.com> <6AF968FA-4D15-4186-80B5-F65AD642D097@exonetric.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:28:51 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution From: Jack To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:58:53 -0000 On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Mark Blackman wrote: > > On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:38, Jack wrote: > >> I 'll try mpd5. Thanks. >> >> Actually, I was concerned with userland ppp, becoz of the >> scenarios where we have a FreeBSD machine and the only >> way to connect to internet is an adsl modem in bridge mode >> (assuming the mode in modem, can't be changed). >> In such case the only utilty is ppp, which can be of help. > > Ok, usually bridge mode implies PPPoE and mpd5 does PPPoE. Maybe > I'm missing your point. > > - Mark Mark, what I meant is when we have, say a fresh FreeBSD install, then the only service we have at expose is ppp. To be able to use mpd5, or other ports/packages we first need to connect to internet then only we can install/use mpd5. So, by default we are stuck at using ppp builtin with FreeBSD. And yes by bridge mode I meant that and are to be provided to OS, rather than storing them inside adsl modem. The bridge mode works fine in my Windows XP setup. Nothing special to configure, just need to go to network connections and create a new connection, using username and password. In XP, I'm using DHCP too, so that I don't need to manually confgure interface IP address. That's why I'm sure that my network setup is not a issue. The issue lies somewhere in FreeBSD configuration or somewhere else. Regards -- Jack