install FreeBSD using PPPoE

[Randy Pratt]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:36:45 -0600
"ar" <aranenko at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Okay Randy, thanks a lot!
> 
> First, yes, I have not received your previous message for some reason.

No idea why it wouldn't have been delivered.  Just an email mystery
I guess.

> Second, the other site you have pointed out:
> http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net is accessible.
>
> Third, the PPPoE connect works perfect, when configured the way you
> described.
>
> Although I have not finished the installation yet, I hope I will get
> through this (if not I will ask again :) ). But in general, all this
> excellently works.
> 
> Here is what I did not get through myself: why would I need to
> initialize ppp? The answer is: to bring up that command line interface
> ppp on the next available tty and be able to enter ppp.conf lines such
> as real PPPoE device, authname, authkey, etc.
> 
> Thank you very much again for your help!
> 
> Alex.

Great!  Glad to hear it worked for you and you'll soon be
exploring FreeBSD.

And, maybe to head off a few questions ... the reason that this is
not part of the Handbook is that it is technically a supported
method used by Sysinstall.  It is a bit of an ugly workaround but it
does work.

Generally, people with a PPPoE connection will download the ISO
image and burn their own CDROM for installation.  The case where a
person needs to install directly via PPPoE only comes up a few times
a year.

Best of luck and remember to have fun!

Randy

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