From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 1 17:40:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD4B3D70 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA96301; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:40:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA20341; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:40:04 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: jim@siteplus.com ("Jim Weeks") Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: secure connection from DSL to DSL users Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 01:38:53 GMT Message-ID: <38978a3f.422059028@mail.sentex.net> References: <3.0.3.32.20000201105045.02bea4f0@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Feb 2000 19:16:39 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >I know this does not answer the question at hand, but DSL is something I >have just began to investigate. The local phone company offers it, but only >with Widows support. Can any one steer me toward a FreeBSD solution. I >don't expect the phone company to be much help other than getting the hook >up. A lot of xDSL offerings these days use PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). If thats the case, you can use FreeBSD. Check to see how Windows95 is setup. If its not some totally propriatory system (which is unlikely), it will most likely work. You wont get 'support' from your telco, but then again, in a lot of cases its not necessary. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message