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Hello Folks.

Is it possible to install FreeBSD via a DSL connection?

sysinstall has an option for installing via modem so I assume that the pppd
is already on one of the bootdisks but I do not have access to a system
console (there only seem to be two one for sysinstall and one for the debug
messages) and therefore I couldn't test wether or not PPPoE is possible.
This would save me a great deal of time.

Has anybody already done this and could give me a hint?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Christian

Quote:> Hello Folks.

> Is it possible to install FreeBSD via a DSL connection?

> sysinstall has an option for installing via modem so I assume that the pppd
> is already on one of the bootdisks but I do not have access to a system
> console (there only seem to be two one for sysinstall and one for the debug
> messages) and therefore I couldn't test wether or not PPPoE is possible.
> This would save me a great deal of time.

I don't know offhand whether PPPoE is supported in the FreeBSD install
(I don't recall it being supported, but that doesn't mean much). If
nothing else, you could use a broadband router, which lets your computer
"talk" normal Ethernet TCP/IP, using DHCP for IP address assignment; the
router then talks PPPoE to the DSL provider. This should work fine. Of
course, if you don't have or want a broadband router for other reasons,
it's overkill to get one just for installing FreeBSD....

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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:23:19 +0100, Christian Flgel

yes

Quote:>  sysinstall has an option for installing via modem so I assume that the pppd

this depends on presentation of the connection relative to the computer.
I have a cablemodem connection, the cablemodems output is ethernet.

Because the presentation is ethernet, all I have to worry about is that I
have a working ethernet card in the machine I'm installing freebsd on, and
hook it up to my hub.

What do you have on your DSL? what is the presentation of the connection
relative to the machine you want to install freebsd on?

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Hi!

It seems to me as if he has the german T-DSL.
They give you a modem but that one isn't capable of serving as a DHCP
server. Your computer needs to talk PPP over Ethernet.
I never tried installing FreeBSD directly via DSL without any router
but it should work because the FreeBSD pppd handles all the PPPoE and
MTU stuff. I'm not sure if there is netgraph_* support in 4.5-STABLE
but my -current shows options NETGRAPH_PPPOE belong the others in
/usr/src/release/i386/dokern.sh.
I might try it in ~6 month when I'm back in Germany :)

Hendrik

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Quote:> Hello Folks.

> Is it possible to install FreeBSD via a DSL connection?

> sysinstall has an option for installing via modem so I assume that the
> pppd is already on one of the bootdisks but I do not have access to a
> system console (there only seem to be two one for sysinstall and one
> for the debug messages) and therefore I couldn't test wether or not
> PPPoE is possible. This would save me a great deal of time.

> Has anybody already done this and could give me a hint?

> any help would be greatly appreciated.

> Regards

> Christian

It's worth your money to get a router. It is *so very much* worth your
money to get a broadband router.

        Turtle

I'm sorry, that wasn't very helpful of me. I absent mindedly sent that
message before I meant to. I don't think sysinstall has any way of
connecting via PPPoE. My dsl is a static ip TCP/IP connection so it was
easy. Your best bet is to get a router/dhcp server, but I don't really
think it's worth the money. I love my FreeBSD system, but if I didn't
have this TCP/IP connection, I don't think I'd be running FreeBSD. I
guess that's a whole other issue altogether though.

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