From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 24 8:12: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903B937B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e8OFBvX60219; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Tancsa To: Usselmann.M@icg-online.de ("Manfred Usselmann") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DSL access with PPPoE Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20000918120746.H15156@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Sep 2000 16:54:39 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: >I would like to provide DSL Internet access for the few PC's on my LAN = using my FreeBSD=20 >server. According to the provider PPPoE is what I need. > >My question: Do I have to add an additional NIC to the server or can I = just attach the DSL=20 >modem to the hub and use the existing network adapter for the LAN and = the Internet? Depending on the modem, yes it might work, but its not desireable. Its = best to get a second NIC (a cheap RealTek will do the job fine). There are = some good FAQ entries on PPPoE as well as many archived answers to PPPoE questions in this mailing list.=20 ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message