From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 19:22:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C428157AA for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:22:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mp@luthier.net) Received: from mark.luthier.net (user-38lcbsa.dsl.mindspring.com [209.86.47.138]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00501 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:22:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:23:38 -0500 (EST) From: mark To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPPoE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dear sirs, my ISP is now using ppp over ethernet to establish a DSL connection. i understand this is supported in 3.4 through the netgraph system, but as a newbie (and dumbass) the man pages for netgraph and pppoe read more like old stereo instructions than anything i'm used to in the freeBSD handbook or GAQ. might i suggest that you consider the establishment of a pppoe DSL connection as one of your FAQ, especially considering the fact that most ISP's seem to be moving in this direction for their DSL. something like that would be a great help to those of us who use and like freeBSD as a bulletproof and exceptional OS, instead of being technogeeks. i've had to use linux since my ISP went PPPoE and i've love to switch back... mark pullen ---------------------------------- E-Mail: mark Date: 22-Dec-99 Time: 22:19:39 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message