From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 17:40:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02E637B404 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:40:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccrider2k (adsl-141-151-201-154.cptl.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.151.201.154]) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f0S1eOF04074; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:40:25 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" To: , "'Matt Edwards'" Cc: Subject: RE: Connecting to My ISP via DSL Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:37:39 -0500 Message-ID: <001901c088ca$e73c1660$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-reply-To: <20010127192333.A5629@h0040f6849012.ne.mediaone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Matt Edwards wrote: > > I am attempting to connect to my ISP using new DSL modem > and service. > [snip] > > Hmmm... I've never heard of DSL requiring PPP. All DSL providers I'm > familiar with either give you a static IP address for your external > NIC or use DHCP to assign a dynamic IP address to your external NIC. > I'm also assuming you're trying to make your BSD box into a gateway. > Well, I am not sure what was in the previous post, but Bell Atlantic DSL in my area does PPPoE, which requires ppp. There is a VERY good tutorial on that in the handbook, at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/pppoe.html Again not sure what the question was. :) Robert Myers Systems Administrator White Rose Internet Service http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message