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Old 13th July 2008
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Hello,

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Originally Posted by jb_daefo View Post
when I ordered dsl I spent many hours finding
ppp.conf's for pppoe. Discovered
by accident that the self-install kit goes online with a simple
#ifconfig....(stuff)
and then a
#route ...... (stuff) , and not with pppoe.
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stymied in configuring a Cisco router behind it. Discovered by accident that
an older dsl-or-router haphazrdly configured suddenly works.
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With that in mind, it would help a lot of people looking to set up dsl on BSD
if you document precisely the steps taken to setup in your situation, put it
somewhere, like here in guides...
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I guess it depends on how your ISP operates. Mine does all the pppoe on the modem itself, which also acts as a router. So all the computer has to do is a simple DHCP request.
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