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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:26:07 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>, "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: If someone is interested in configuring ADSL under FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <005101c03e11$ca0efd40$837e03cb@dougy>
References:  <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCA@exchange.panasonicfa.com>

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Thanks for that Andrei ..... we are just starting to see a bit of ADSL
around this
part of the planet so its good to have some real "grass roots" info on the
config
stuff  :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>
To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:57 AM
Subject: If someone is interested in configuring ADSL under FreeBSD.


> >From the same source... If someone is interested...
> Well Here is one more story how did I configure my ADSL under FreeBSD.
> It took me about 2 months to figure out how to configure ADSL under
FreeBSD.
> I have very little knowledge of UNIX, so I was looking some support from
my
> ISP (Ameritech). But they told me to configure it myself, because they do
> not have support for FreeBSD. Oh, well I started searching the web. But
the
> first thing I noticed there were a lot of people complaining about PPPoE,
> and to say truth it scared me. I thought, oh my God how I would be able
ever
> configure it, I do not know anything about UNIX...:( But piece by piece, I
> collected different information from different sources. But finally end up
> by FreeBSD mailing list where I found all the answers for my questions.
And
> what do you think? It worked!!! You should see me jumping in the room :)
> Finally ,if some one is interested how to configure ADSL (well all this
> steps worked for me) read e-mail further.
>  A few things I would like to add. I don't want to play flaming game about
> Linux VS. FreeBSD all I want to say is:
> 1) I was not able to configure ADSL under any of Distribution of
Linux.(even
> after I installed it on FreeBSD 3.4)
> 2)I was not able to install it after FreeBSD 3.5 (it gives me NETGRAPH
> errors but it could be my fault, I have no Idea what is NETGRAPH )
>
> 3)The configuration of PPPoE that provided in FreeBSD
> Handbook(www.freebsd.org) did not work in my case.
>
> And once Again I would like to say Thanks to all FreeBSD mailing Lists.
>
>
> ######### STEP 1 #############
>
> # Kernel Configuration:
> # You need to add those 3 lines in your kernel  and compile it.
> # In my case It was a copy of LINT  ' /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ -kernel
> directory
> # Using vi editor I added those 3lines:
>
> options NETGRAPH
> options NERGRAPH_PPPOE
> options NETGRAPH_SOCKET
>
> # Afterwards you need to compile it
> # /usr/sbin/config -g 'Kernel Name'
> # cd ../../compile/MORPH
> # make depend
> # make
> # make install
> # shutdown -r now
>
>
> ######## STEP 2 ################
>
> # Please Notice:
> # Before default: & pppoe: do not put space !!!!
> # Put ONE SPACE BEFORE ANY OTHER OPTION !!!
>
>
>
> # EDIT /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
>
> default:
>  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
>  nat enable yes
>  nat same_ports yes
>  nat same_sockets yes
>  set redial 15 28800
>  set reconnect 15 28800
>
> pppoe:
>  set device PPPoE:pn0: # Device name in my case pn0
>  set mru 1492
>  set mtu 1492
>  set speed sync
>  set cd 5
>  set dial
>  set login
>  set timeout 0
>  set authname login-name # Put Your Log In here
>  set authkey password # Put Your Password in here
>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255 0 0.0.0.0
>  add default HISADDR
>  enable dns
>
>
> ###### STEP 3 (OPTION I) ##################
>
> # EDIT /etc/rc.conf
>
> network_interfaces="auto"
> ifconfig_pn0=" inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 -arp up"
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_mode="background"
> ppp_profile="pppoe"
>
>
> ###### STEP 3 (OPTION II) ##################
>
> # Or, you can start connection manualy
> # Type PPP
> # You Should get something like this
> # ppp ON>
> # Type dial pppoe
> # You should get something like:
> # Ppp ON>
> # PPp ON>
> # PPP ON>
> # LAST LINE IN CAPITALS, IT MEANS YOU ARE CONNECTED TO ISP BY xDSL
>
>
>
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