Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > > Ted, > > I believe that William was requesting a method to do a net install of > FreeBSD with PPPoE. > > So, having been stuck at one point in this same situation (i live in > Toronto, Canada, and the xDSL provided by Bell Sympatico uses PPPoE) i > re-post the question: > > Is there any possibility of PPPoE being an **installation** option. If PPPoE > is your only connection option to install FreeBSD, a post-install How-To > won't really help much. :-( > > If it's a matter of demand, there's several thousand DSL subscribers in > Canada who are stuck with PPPoE... Just FYI, Bell Atlantic (I guess they're now called Verizon) is deploying the same junk. I mean, PPPoE is *so* wasteful, with THIRTY extra bytes of overhead per frame (10 bytes of LLC/SNAP header, 14 bytes of Ethernet header, plus 6 bytes of PPPoE header), compared to direct PPP over ATM. So our northern friends are not alone in this situation... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
