From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 11:18:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F7116A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:18:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBA143D3F for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:18:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=192.168.0.4) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CNUmO-000ICu-II for Freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:18:48 +0000 From: Xian To: Freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:18:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410291218.44989.ian@codepad.net> Subject: Making an ADSL Router X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:18:51 -0000 I have a friend who's ADSL router has recently broken beyond repair. He also has a Free BSD machine that is on all the time so I thought that could become a router. I know I will need some kind of ADSL modem but I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. So any guidance will be greatly appreciated. I'm currently reading http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ handbook/ppp-and-slip.html -- /Xian [call sign: 2E1IPS] [web site: www.codepad.net] [email: ian@codepad.net]