From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 10:39: 3 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 7059037B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:38:57 -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 f3LHakp31028; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:36:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008c01c0ca89$86ad79a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Hervey Wilson" , References: <01042112420600.00300@david.thecafe.ca> <004501c0ca86$be65b9a0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> Subject: Re: PPPOE &ADSL on FreeBSD Tutorial Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:35:58 -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 > Good article, but there's something I just don't understand. I have been > using ADSL for over 2 years now with an external modem connected to an > ethernet card in my server. I have used Windows 2000 Server, Redhat Linux > 5.2, 6.0, 6.2, 7.0 and now FreeBSD 4.2, 4.3 on the server. > > At no time have I *ever* consciously used PPPoE to make the connection to my > ISP. For every one of the operating systems above, I have configured the > ethernet adapter to simply use IP. For the first year, I used DHCP to assign > IP address and now I have a static IP address. No PPPoE anywhere. > > What gives with all this PPPoE ? Is there something I'm missing here ? Is it > only needed for some DSL setups ? Yes. Some DSL ISPs use PPPoE, some use a DHCP setup like most Cable providers do. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message