From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 8:42:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B986A14BD2 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA23571; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:40:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199903021640.KAA23571@iaces.com> Subject: Re: USPest [Was: Re: support for ADSL cards drivers in FreeBSD] In-Reply-To: <36DC12A4.10E1A77A@uswest.net> from Nocturne at "Mar 2, 99 08:32:36 am" To: dpilgrim@uswest.net (Nocturne) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:40:46 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Nocturne said: > [CC list trimmed for the sake of at least one person's mailbox] > "Paul T. Root" wrote: > > Well, at this time, USWEST (at least) is not offering PPP mode, all ADSL is > > bridged mode. I'm testing ppp on a 675 and have bridged on the 605. Sometime > > this year, I think we'll be switching to ppp mode (that's uswest.net). > > Does this mean the routing modes are out of the question? > Forgive my network newbie-ness. At this time, bridging is all that is offered. In the future, it will be ppp. > > When you get service from USWEST, you get the 675 free, along with a 3COM > > ethernet board (ISA, I think). I think they say it's a $300 value, or so. > > Actually they'll send you a PCI version (905B-TX), but you have to > ask for it directly. USW will even send you a prepaid shipping tag > for the old card if you "forgot to ask for PCI when you ordered." > Ain't that swell? Yes, but I heard discussions of just having the ISA available because of problems with the PCI card. I don't know where that went. -- "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder, Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message