From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 30 17:52:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc2.pa.home.com (mail1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DD637B8BA for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:52:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garycor@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.3.185.85]) by mail1.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000731005222.FOJV16837.mail1.rdc2.pa.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:52:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3984CE36.1DC646BF@home.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:54:14 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Cc: Ted Sikora , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Chat@Gtabug. Org" Subject: Re: PPPoE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > > Ted, > > I believe that William was requesting a method to do a net install of > FreeBSD with PPPoE. > > So, having been stuck at one point in this same situation (i live in > Toronto, Canada, and the xDSL provided by Bell Sympatico uses PPPoE) i > re-post the question: > > Is there any possibility of PPPoE being an **installation** option. If PPPoE > is your only connection option to install FreeBSD, a post-install How-To > won't really help much. :-( > > If it's a matter of demand, there's several thousand DSL subscribers in > Canada who are stuck with PPPoE... Just FYI, Bell Atlantic (I guess they're now called Verizon) is deploying the same junk. I mean, PPPoE is *so* wasteful, with THIRTY extra bytes of overhead per frame (10 bytes of LLC/SNAP header, 14 bytes of Ethernet header, plus 6 bytes of PPPoE header), compared to direct PPP over ATM. So our northern friends are not alone in this situation... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message