Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:02:50 -0500 From: Skip Ford <skip@menantico.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0R && ADSL Message-ID: <20090110210250.GA894@menantico.com> In-Reply-To: <20090110152531.GA32657@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090109083642.GA7507@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090110105455.GA932@menantico.com> <20090110152531.GA32657@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, January 10, 2009 a las 05:54:56AM -0500, Skip Ford escribió: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > What kind of software I could use in FreeBSD? There is some port > > > net/rp-pppoe but the man pages speaks about incoming connections? > > > What else? > > > > Are you having problems using ppp(8)? PPPoE has been just another > > dialup connection for years. Example configurations are available in > > /usr/share/examples/ppp. > > > > If you really want a port, net/mpd is the way to go. ppp(8) is userland > > while mpd is kernel. I wish it was in base. > > Thanks for all the hints. The problem was that for many years I have > only used 'normal' pppd connections (over modems, ISDN or UMTS), but > never PPPoE. So I went to the ports and did search 'name=pppoe' and > ended up in net/rp-pppoe and was confused. It seems that just ppp(8) is > what I have to use. Thx again. Yeah, pppd(8) doesn't do PPPoE AFAIK. In addition to the examples I already posted, there's a PPPoE section in the handbook which covers everything instead of just ppp.conf: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoe.html Good luck. -- Skip
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