From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 23 14:12:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vectorstar.net (adsl-157-145-17.gnv.bellsouth.net [66.157.145.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBC637B42F for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ash@localhost) by vectorstar.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1NMC7C37213 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:12:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ash@vectorstar.net) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:12:03 -0500 From: Austin Shaw Hall To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE Message-ID: <20020223171203.A37156@darkstar.bellsouth.net> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00c001c1bca7$c3bdca00$2cbea942@Crank> <20020223160513.S295@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020223160513.S295@twincat.vladsempire.net>; from friar_josh@webwarrior.net on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:05:13PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 23 February Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:22:06PM -0600, dwhuff wrote: > > Here is what I'm trying to do. Please point me in the right direction. > > > > Configure my FreeBSD box to connect to my ISP (which uses PPPoE) so the > > Internal LAN can use the BSD box as a gateway. I already know what the > > static IP, Sub and GW are. > > > > I had this working when I was using Charter@Home's Cable Internet. Now that > > I have switched to DSL I'm not sure how to configure the BSD box since PPPoE > > is in the mix. > > > > As far as I know all PPPoE does is log into a server, grab the IP info then > > configure the Router/Server. > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Huff > > I would recommend the excellent section of the handbook that gives > step by step setup instructions for PPPoE. > > www.freebsd.org/handbook > > Josh Also check out this article: http://www.daemonnews.org/200101/pppoe.html Austin -- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -- Alan Watts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message