Bill Hudspeth <wjhud@jps.net> writes:
> Anyone aware of BSD friendly ISPs with service
> on the US west coast?

I've been successful at connecting to Earthlink
(http://www.earthlink.net) with pppd on NetBSD. I don't know that they
specifically "support" anything but MS Windows, but their dialups
certainly are generic enough to work with most anything. Note that
Earthlink doesn't use their own infrastructure in most (all??) cases -
they rent space on servers run/connected by uunet and PSInet (and
possibly others - those are the ones I know about). The upshot of this
is that probably most other companies using the same infrastructure
will probably also work properly with a generic pppd on a *BSD box.

I also use RCN, but that's only on the East Coast, I think, and they
seem to have infrastructure problems at times (ie, their routing
totally degenerates and you can't get to anywhere), so I don't know
that I'd recommend them (although an RCN cable modem is currently my
primary connection).

The pppd scripts I'm using, btw, are pretty much taken from the PPP
info on the NetBSD website.

Someday "soon", I'll have time to test Earthlink's DSL service with
NetBSD - I have the service into the house for testing, but so far
it's been totally dedicated to testing "day job" things (ie MS Windows
:-( )