Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:50:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210214708.26338A-100000@freight.msn.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210192713.29893Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > Does anyone use ADSL on thier FreeBSD machines. I have talked to our > > local telephone company (www.bcteladvanced.com) and they said you have to > > login to the service like you would with PPP. They only support MacOS, > > WinNT and Win95. > > > > Does anyone have a similar setup in their area and is their a way to login > > to the service from FreeBSD? They using DHCP for their IP addresses. I > > could use my mac as a router but I'd rather not. > > ADSL in the United States is evolving so you have an independent box that > has an DSL port and an ethernet port. > > Can you get more details from the provider? What type of device is it? An > internal card or standalone box? They told me it is a ADSL modem (external standalone like you regular 28.8 modem) that has the copper RJ-11 phone jack which spilts into to lines: 1 RJ-11 Phone line for standard telephone calls and the other is a RJ-45 10BaseT Ethernet connection for your computer. 3 Jacks total. They won't tell me much more about it... Talk to you soon, Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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