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Apparently, Mangoosta is a replacement for FT and will be
getting a divorce from them when FT are obliged to give up their
monopoly later this year.

None of these companies explicitly support FreeBSD, but one or
two now seem to support Linux (including, it would appear, even
France Telecom). If I could get ADSL going in Linux I would make
do with that while adapting my FreeBSD installation, but I will
not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES accept doing anything in Windoze
other than playing games - besides, how the hell can anyone
expect to run a network with windoze as a firewall!

Dave.

  i think that it is for you to decide with isp to take: currently, mangosta
appears to be the cheaper. Club-internet will soon (or as already) propose a
pack, as FT (wanadoo) will to. (I, in fact use wanadoo - netissimo).

  but in the end, the your machine will work the same way: take care of usb
modems... i think you should prefer a ethernet one.
  Even if some isp supports linux, etc... you will be able to find every
information you need, around, to use your freebsd as a gateway / http, ftp,
mail server...

  don't know what to tell more... (i may not have understood completly your
question...)

  benoit

Quote:> Does anyone have any experiences to relate to me - good or bad -
> regarding France Telecom's Netissimo service and French ISP's
> who offer ADSL? My current ISP (one of France's biggest) has
> seen fit to drop DSL support, and since I've got a guy coming
> next week to put a connection in, I need to make a choice
> quickly. For the moment I'm focusing on Nerim, Mangoosta, and
> ... er ..............

> Apparently, Mangoosta is a replacement for FT and will be
> getting a divorce from them when FT are obliged to give up their
> monopoly later this year.

> None of these companies explicitly support FreeBSD, but one or
> two now seem to support Linux (including, it would appear, even
> France Telecom). If I could get ADSL going in Linux I would make
> do with that while adapting my FreeBSD installation, but I will
> not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES accept doing anything in Windoze
> other than playing games - besides, how the hell can anyone
> expect to run a network with windoze as a firewall!

> Dave.

    Dave> Does anyone have any experiences to relate to me - good or bad -
    Dave> regarding France Telecom's Netissimo service and French ISP's who
    Dave> offer ADSL?

If you read french, take a look at the archives of fr.comp.os.bsd at
http:/www.deja.com

It seems that ISP's are mostly providing pppoe connectivity and by chance
it's well supported under FreeBSD.

The only problem is that *BSD's are most of the times officially unsupported
by ISP's.

HTH

Eric Masson
--
Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to
dumb users in front of smart terminals.

Quote:>  hello,

>  i think that it is for you to decide with isp to take:
>  currently, mangosta
>appears to be the cheaper. Club-internet will soon (or as
>already) propose a pack, as FT (wanadoo) will to. (I, in fact
>use wanadoo - netissimo).

>  but in the end, the your machine will work the same way:
>  take care of usb
>modems... i think you should prefer a ethernet one.
>  Even if some isp supports linux, etc... you will be able to
>  find every
>information you need, around, to use your freebsd as a
>gateway / http, ftp, mail server...

Dave.

{snip}

Quote:> Well ... I know (more or less) what to do to get DSL going in
> Linux or FreeBSD, but the installer might not, and I don't
> intend to do his job for him.
> What I'm wary about - especially with FT, whom I don't trust as
> far as I can throw them - is companies not taking responsibility
> for problems of their own creation simply because I'm not using
> 'doze or Mac. That's what I meant by FreeBSD-friendly.

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