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
	:-( )
BTW, have you heard of the NetBSD/i386Firewall Solution at
http://www.dubbele.com? I'm working with John there to create a version of
that which would include the PPPoE driver stuff needed by most xDSL users,
like me (I use SNET, which is owned by the infamous SBC Communications, for
an ISP). Hopefully that will be finished in the next week (or 3, depending
on the "day job" stuff)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Laine Stump [SMTP:lainestump@rcn.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:02 PM
> To:	wjhud@jps.net
> Cc:	port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject:	Re: BSD-Friendly Internet?
> 
> 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
> :-( )