From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 30 13:18:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9752A152B5 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:18:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA39375; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:18:39 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:18:39 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Marco Paulo Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPOED in rc.conf Message-ID: <19991230211839.D35536@florence.pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 03:58:54PM -0500, Marco Paulo Rodrigues wrote: > Does anyone know the reason for the pppoed daemon? I've read all > the man files and the ones related to it and I can't seem to get it to > work. I can get pppoe to work fine with ppp and I have a life connection. > Anyways my problem is when I enable pppoed in the rc.conf file then when I > boot I don't get an error message, but I notice it shows the pppoed > command and the sytnax as if I typed an invalid switch. Anyone with any > ideas? Yes, if you want to run a server that other people can connect to using pppoe you need to run pppoed. If you're connecting to someone elses server (your ISPs, etc) then you don't need to play with pppoed. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message