Re: Setting up PPP and ADSL

[Joseph Garcia <bsd_usr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Janda wrote:
> Oh by the way, I can use PPPoE too. Whichever is easier to set up.
>
> Petr Janda wrote:
>
> > I have an Linksys ADSL gateway router, and I use PPPoA at the moment. 
> > However, I would like to set it in bridge mode(which is easy) so that 
> > the PPP terminates on my DragonFly server. Ive never worked with PPP 
> > on a unix box, only on Cisco routers though. I was looking through 
> > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and ppp man page but it seems to be about setting up 
> > PPP for dial up. Is anyone doing the same to give me some clue about 
> > how to configure the ppp0 interface for my ADSL?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Petr

I don't know much about PPPoA, but in the past I have used FreeBSD with 
userland ppp with PPPoE support to do exactly what you're doing. This 
was a few years ago when I had DSL and it required PPPoE.

Like I said, that was on FreeBSD but I'm pretty sure that DragonFlyBSD 
has the same functionality (since it was born from FreeBSD) with it's 
userland ppp.

Take a deeper look at the userland ppp. I had setup the ppp program to 
automatically dial (not modem dial but PPPoE dial) when Internet traffic 
tried to go through.

Anyway, bottom line is: Look at userland ppp and ppp.conf.

Joey