From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 18: 1: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx9.airmail.net (mx9.airmail.net [209.196.77.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2BF37B408 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.iadfw.net ([209.196.123.3]) by mx9.airmail.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 177QgT-000OGY-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:00:57 -0500 Received: from lyon from [206.180.153.213] by mail3.iadfw.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.61) with smtp for sender: id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:01:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <041701c1fae2$e3c58490$0300000a@lyon> Reply-To: "Joe Gwozdecki" From: "Joe Gwozdecki" To: Cc: References: <1021303692.3cdfdb8cae404@www.unidavi.edu.br> <03e501c1fa95$12a2e120$0300000a@lyon> <1021318922.3ce0170a69b3c@www.unidavi.edu.br> Subject: Re: ADSL question Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:01:33 -0500 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Your DSL provider should give you a NIC and an external DSL modem. Then you can hook up your one computer or a whole LAN behind it, with FreeBSD. Installation is nothing. Just go to /stand/sysinstall and go through the simple DHCP set-up. FreeBSD literally runs to your DSL line. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Joe Gwozdecki" Cc: Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Re: ADSL question > Quoting Joe Gwozdecki : > > > Why do you want to buy a router when you can use one of your FreeBSD boxes > > and another NIC to serve as a gateway computer and firewall as well? Put > > the unlimited power of FreeBSD to work. That is what I did. Wire in the > > rest of the LAN to the gateway with a cheap switch. > > > > Joe Gwozdecki > > Hmmm, let me tell ya > Im completely newbie about ADSL, I always used Dial-up. I dont know what pieces > of hardware I need to set it up. And I dont have a lan, I use FreeBSD at home > for fun and to study. Could you tell me what do I need to buy to start using > ADSL? A modem (where can I discover if it is compatible with FreeBSD?). I heard > that some ADSL providers work in a diferent way (PPPoE and PPTP). Well, please > give me some advice about this stuff, it would be great. > > Thank you > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message