FreeBSD 7.0R && ADSL

[Ian Smith]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Skip Ford wrote:
 > Matthias Apitz wrote:
 > > El día Saturday, January 10, 2009 a las 05:54:56AM -0500, Skip Ford escribió:
 > > > Matthias Apitz wrote:
 > > > > What kind of software I could use in FreeBSD? There is some port
 > > > > net/rp-pppoe but the man pages speaks about incoming connections?
 > > > > What else?
 > > > 
 > > > Are you having problems using ppp(8)?  PPPoE has been just another
 > > > dialup connection for years.  Example configurations are available in
 > > > /usr/share/examples/ppp.
 > > > 
 > > > If you really want a port, net/mpd is the way to go.  ppp(8) is userland
 > > > while mpd is kernel.  I wish it was in base.

I was going to say that being in ports isn't too far away, but then 
realised that unless it's in base it can't be used for installation .. 
so +1 on that wish.

 > > Thanks for all the hints. The problem was that for many years I have
 > > only used 'normal' pppd connections (over modems, ISDN or UMTS), but
 > > never PPPoE. So I went to the ports and did search 'name=pppoe' and
 > > ended up in net/rp-pppoe and was confused. It seems that just ppp(8) is
 > > what I have to use. Thx again.
 > 
 > Yeah, pppd(8) doesn't do PPPoE AFAIK.  In addition to the examples I
 > already posted, there's a PPPoE section in the handbook which covers
 > everything instead of just ppp.conf:
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoe.html

That section maybe could suggest mpd as an alternative, too.  When I 
first was setting up for pppoe Bruce Simpson strongly urged me to try 
mpd instead, which was advice that I'm still appreciating.

Last I heard, pppd(8) was getting close to being deprecated (not to 
suggest that ppp(8) using pppoe is in any similar state of neglect)

cheers, Ian