> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:40:19PM -0700, Mark E wrote:
> > I was just chatting online with my dsl help service,
> > they told me the dsl modem has builtin pppoe and it
> > will automatically detect a connection.  I guess I

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:44:58PM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> I imagine the DSL modem has a built-in DHCP server, router, and NAT.

I'm not having any luck getting pppoe to work with my new provider,
and this comment perhaps is the answer.

I have this black box (actually it's off-white :) that hooks up to an
optical fiber cable.  There is a jack, labeled LAN, that a regular
ethernet wire plugs into.  The instructions say to plug your computer
(Windoze of course) into that.

Does this mean that I might not even have to do pppoe?  In other words
the black box does the pppoe negotiation for me, and all I need to do
is be a tcp/ip dhcp client relative to the box?  (Seems strange, though,
that they would give me the pppoe id and password.)

Another idea I had was to plug a WindowsXP machine into the optical-
ethernet converter black box, and then see if I can find the missing
information that I need to get NetBSD to connect by looking at the
WindowsXP network configuration.  Anyone have a idea what things I
should look for if I do try this?

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