"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:

> At 3:17 PM -0800 2/14/01, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
> >>>I'm trying to set up X on my Q800.  Which files do I have to
> >>>modify to get it to work?  Also when I boot into multi-user mode I
> >>>lose the reboot and shutdown commands.  What could be causing that?
> >>
> >>The above items are working fine now.  Now the next hurdle to cross
> >>is to get my DSL and PPPoE up and running.  How do I do this?
> >
> >More info on this: my IP address is dynamically assigned by my ISP.
>
> PPPoE is not directly supported by NetBSD at this time.  There is a
> package in pkgsrc that does it at the user level, but that's
> inefficient.  The package used to have bugs in it, but they may,
> hopefully, have been fixed by now.
>
> It's possible that your DSL equipment can support "bridged" mode
> which looks just like normal fixed-IP Ethernet.  It may be worth
> calling your provider to see if they can switch your service.
>
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> h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu

I am using roaring penguin
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
to connect with a French ADSL provider
it's very easy to configure (configuration tool
included): 20 s to configure , and it
works fine

you can install it from the packages collection
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/net/rp-pppoe/README.html

--
Christophe