Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:38:15 -0800 From: "Leo Krajewski" <krajewskil@my-Deja.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & DSL Message-ID: <OGKPEBKOCJDLOBAA@my-deja.com>
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Are you sure he's not talking about PPPoE? It's what BA uses for their DSL. There's a section on it in the FreeBSD handbook. I've been having a bit of trouble with it, but there's quite a few people who've gotten it up and running. Leo -- On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:32:20 Chris Hill wrote: >"Gene Bomgardner" <glbj@bellatlantic.net> wrote, > >>... While I have User PPP up and running with a dial up connection, I >>haven't been able to get FreeBSD to run PPP over the DSL line. > >There's no need to run PPP over DSL. In fact, I doubt it's even possible. >As far as the computer is concerned, the DSL bridge is plain old ethernet. >Just configure your interface and you're off - no phone numbers, no dial >scripts. > >When I switched over to DSL (not BA except for the wire to the CO), I had >to do some reconfiguration. This was partly due to switching ISPs at the >same time. IIRC, I had to change /etc/rc.conf to take ppp0 off the >interface list, configure my outside interface and to set it as the >natd_interface. I also had to change some IPs and so forth. > >>In addition, when using DSL with Win95 (ISP is Bell Atlantic) the dial >>up dialog contains 111-1111 as the phone number. ... Why is it there? > >It's just more Windoze brain damage. It seems like they go out of their way >to confuse the user and conceal what's actually happening. > > >-- >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org >[place witty saying here] > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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