Hello List

[Mike Hauber]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:34 am, Ben Haysom 
proclaimed:

> The ADSL modem from my ISP I can't get driveers for
> FreeBSD for. I obviously do have an have an ADSL line,
> which has a fixed IP. I can ping nothing outside my own
> network.

You don't need a router.  I've had a setup very similar to 
yours in the past (now, I'm on broadband and use OpenBSD 
for my router/firewall/filter)... Any rate, I FreeBSD will 
make an excellent router/more for you.  It just takes a 
learning process.

Provide the outputs from the "uname -a", "dmesg -a", 
"ifconfig -a", "cat /etc/rc.conf", cat "/etc/hosts" 
commands.  If you have compiled and installed a custom 
kernel, then also provide the kernel ("cat 
"/sys/i386/conf/KERN.NAME.GOES.HERE").

There are many possibilities for the server not talking to 
the modem, and it's impossible for anyone on this list to 
narrow those possibilities down unless you provide a 
reasonable amount of information.

Mike

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