From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 11:56:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2015537B7DE for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (adsl-static-1-C7B2BC85.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.178.188.133]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA96901; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:04:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000808145517.02332528@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:56:44 -0400 To: Tomaz Borstnar , From: John Turner Subject: Re: Getting DSL for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.11.0.20000808142550.026c0ec0@193.189.189.100> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000808072141.00b0f890@mail.johnturner.com> <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 Sorry, I didn't realize there was such an animal. I thought the attraction to DSL was that it is always on....if that's the case, what is the rationale for logging in? To assign a dynamic IP? At 02:27 PM 8/8/2000 +0200, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: >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