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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:25:27 -0500
From:      Rod Person <rod.person@verizon.net>
To:        "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Device inphy0??
Message-ID:  <20030310192527.48c3590c.rod.person@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <007401c2e6aa$a7d46aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <20030309183451.13445f89.rod.person@verizon.net> <007401c2e6aa$a7d46aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:13:34 -0500
"Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:
> The inphy0 device is just one-half of a ethernet device, specifying the
> physical layer controller (which is often separate from the interface to the
> system).  You should have a network card identified just above this (such as
> fxp0, bge0, etc.)  It is this ethernet device which you should reference in
> your ppp.conf to enable your PPPoE DSL.


Oh, that explains it! I just switched from a 3Com card to an Intel card that is fxp0. It was the first time I really paid attention to my dmesg since I built world with 4.8-prerealease and thought that might have something to do with it.

Thanks

Rod

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