Subject: Re: PPPoE and Mindspring/Covad?
To: Rob Yu <rky@PocketScience.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/24/2000 15:03:36
At 10:08 AM -0800 3/17/00, Rob Yu wrote:
>So I investigated further, and ran into an apparent
>dead-end:  the DSL service uses PPP over ethernet
>(PPPoE), and apparently NetBSD 1.3.3 doesn't
>support that.
>
>Questions:
>1.  has anybody had success in connecting with
>    pacbell or mindspring DSL service, where the IP address is
>    allocated dynamically?
>2.  do I need a PPPoE client at all?

There is an kludge implementation for -current by someone with the moniker
of mouse over on the tech-net list.

He says it works (inefficiently), but he gave up and switched to another
dsl provider.

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