From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 8:43:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.siol.net (odin.siol.net [193.189.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6BA37B911 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomaz.borstnar@over.net) Received: from web.over.net ([213.250.60.4]) by mail.siol.net (InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license 3b7ff800a4377eede9efc7be81e8a7c4) with ESMTP id <20000808154343.JPKT28682.mail@web.over.net> for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:43:43 +0200 Received: from gonzales.over.net (gonzales [192.168.2.20]) by web.over.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA623E005 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:27:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.11.0.20000808142550.026c0ec0@193.189.189.100> X-Sender: tmail@193.189.189.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.0.11 (Beta) Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:27:29 +0200 To: From: Tomaz Borstnar Subject: Re: Getting DSL for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000808072141.00b0f890@mail.johnturner.com> References: <20000807221723.A48000@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:34 8.8.00, John Turner wrote: >At 10:17 PM 8/7/2000 -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > >>I'm thinking of getting a DSL but am a bit confused on what to ask the >>companies to ensure that the line will work with FreeBSD. I assume that even >>if they don't advertise it to work with FreeBSD, in some cases it probably >>does. > >DSL works with any OS. The output of any DSL modem/router/bridge is a >standard RJ-45 Ethernet jack (at least, it should be this way in the >USA). This will plug into any network card. Unless your provider wants you to use login method - either PPPoE or PPTP. Then you need software support which FreeBSD provides. Tomaz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message