Connecting to internet.
Chris Hill
chris at monochrome.org
Wed Dec 21 21:01:29 PST 2005
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Chris Saunders wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Ruben (and others). I did see these sections
> when having a cursory look at the docs but was hoping for something
> simpler. On some older versions of Linux that I have installed there
> was a program called adsl-setup that I used to get connected.
Sounds like you're on a DSL line. The proper way to connect depends on
what what your ISP is set up for. Mine uses a straight ethernet-to-ATM
bridge, so I just ifconfig and I'm off. I hear a lot of ISPs use PPP
over ethernet, and other stuff as well. Best would be to find out what
your ISP uses. If it's PPP over ethernet, search the web site (and/or
archives) for that phrase, or for PPPoE.
> I thought FreeBSD would have something similar and I was just not
> finding it.
Not quite so automated here. There is dhclient, the DHCP client, which
allows your machine to get a dynamic IP from your ISP. I've never used
it but I know it exists.
HTH.
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