From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 18 4:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B442837B4E5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten5.pacbell.net (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id EAA09486; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:39:33 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten5 To: YWang2323@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD with PacBell's DSL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Wed, 18 Oct 2000 it looks like YWang2323@aol.com composed: -->Hi --> -->Since I was suggested to find some "real ISP", because of not being able to -->connect to MSN and AOL with ppp. I am investigating this approach. --> -->Has anybody ever use PacBell's DSL with FreeBSD's ppp? -->Specifically in San Jose area. --> Some attention also needs to be placed in the area of a "STATIC vs DYNAMIC" IP address. Take some time to understand the implications of that and what it means. -- Bill Schoolcraft http://wiliweld.com PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 " saevis tranquillus in undis " To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message