Darren wrote: >Andrew wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Asker wrote: >>>The modem can be configured to use PPPoE or PPTP protocol for making the >>>connection with my Internet Servise Provider. >> >> Well if the modem does PPPoE itself (and preusmably NAT) then you need no >> speical support from the OS. From its poitn of view you are just conencted >> via ethernet. > >If you need the machine to do PPPoE, ppp supports PPPoE. For this to >work, though, you need netgraph, which isn't in GENERIC. You will need >to make a custom kernel and build your own set of custom floppies.
Happily, kernel configuration is no longer necessary for PPPoE. If the necessary netgraph support is not built into the kernel, it will be dynamically loaded by ppp (See handbook section on PPPoE). I have Earthlink and their modems do not have integral PPPoE or NAT but it is possible to connect with Sysinstall and install via FTP. Granted, it is not straightforward since the ethernet device and ppp have to be configured prior to starting the installation. I kept a few notes and dressed them up a little on how to do an FTP install using PPPoE: http://www.treefort.org/~rpratt/pppoe/article.html They could probably use some more work, but they should be usable. Hope this helps the original poster. Randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message