You dont need any software from sympatico, you can use ppp from FreeBSD to do pppoe. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
make sure your username ends with @sympatico.ca, then make sure you get valid sympatico DNS servers in your /etc/resolv.conf file. <-- I worked at sympatico once, their real bitches about unix/linux support, and to think the guy from roaring penguin who wrote the linux pppoe client onced worked for them. they should at least recommend that one! --> -Rick On February 7, 2005 03:06 pm, Shawn B wrote: > I am fairly new at *nix and FreeBSD. I am attempting > to run a privately owned, publically accessible web > server from a PC running FreeBSD 4.8. I configured > ppp.conf and rc.conf for the *old* ISP settings (the > ones that worked a year ago), and now they do now > work. I cannot connect the machine to the ISP. > Although PPP does enable, I cannot resolve any > domains. The ISP is Bell-Sympatico (Canada), and they > are completely unwilling to help me, or provide > software that will accommodate *nix systems > specifically. They do, however, have PPPoE software > for Linux. Since I am new to FreeBSD, I do not want to > try this software unless I know it will work ok. The > software is available here > http://service.sympatico.ca/index.cfm?method=content.view&content_id=1138&c >ategory_id=99 > > I have tried every possible option I could conjure-up > with no avail. I have even exhaustively searched the > FreeBSD Handbook and Man pages on-line, and other > resources (such as Google) were no help. > > I thank you for any help yous' may provide to me. I am > running short on time and patience in getting this > system on-line. If this should have been send > elsewhere, please let me know. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Rimasec Internet Services www.rimasec.net / [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (514) 998-7830 / fax: (514) 998-7130 Owner & Systems Administrator / Rick Fournier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GnuPG / PGP Key: 31846E22 (http://www.rimasec.net/keys/rick.asc) Key Fingerprint: B1E3 AE2E C867 F491 BF9F 9485 7818 122D 3184 6E22
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