ISP connection issue

[Rick Fournier]

You dont need any software from sympatico, you can use ppp from FreeBSD to do 
pppoe. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html

make sure your username ends with @sympatico.ca, then make sure you get valid 
sympatico DNS servers in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

<-- I worked at sympatico once, their real bitches about unix/linux support, 
and to think the guy from roaring penguin who wrote the linux pppoe client 
onced worked for them. they should at least recommend that one! -->

-Rick

On February 7, 2005 03:06 pm, Shawn B wrote:
> I am fairly new at *nix and FreeBSD. I am attempting
> to run a privately owned, publically accessible web
> server from a PC running FreeBSD 4.8. I configured
> ppp.conf and rc.conf for the *old* ISP settings (the
> ones that worked a year ago), and now they do now
> work. I cannot connect the machine to the ISP.
> Although PPP does enable, I cannot resolve any
> domains. The ISP is Bell-Sympatico (Canada), and they
> are completely unwilling to help me, or provide
> software that will accommodate *nix systems
> specifically. They do, however, have PPPoE software
> for Linux. Since I am new to FreeBSD, I do not want to
> try this software unless I know it will work ok. The
> software is available here
> http://service.sympatico.ca/index.cfm?method=content.view&content_id=1138&c
>ategory_id=99
>
> I have tried every possible option I could conjure-up
> with no avail. I have even exhaustively searched the
> FreeBSD Handbook and Man pages on-line, and other
> resources (such as Google) were no help.
>
> I thank you for any help yous' may provide to me. I am
> running short on time and patience in getting this
> system on-line. If this should have been send
> elsewhere, please let me know.
>
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