"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > When my DSL was installed, I told him (COVAD guy) that I was using FreeBSD > for my gateway and that was the way it had to be. He was fine with it - he > set everything up on his laptop and did his tests from there. Once he was > sure the connection was live, he left me all the information. It was > completely up to me to get it working with FreeBSD - which only took a > couple of minutes. > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > Thanks everyone for the great replies - I'm forwarding them to my brother. When I got DSL (which was quite a long time ago), I just got a big box from US West - amongst all the other stuff in the box was an addendum which was quite specific to whatever linux I was running at the time. I was very impressed - actually I'm still impressed. I've upgraded my kernel umpteen times since then and never had to touch anything in regards to my DSL service. It's been as as close to perfect as anything I have ever dealt with. Now before you brand me a Qwest turncoat, ask me about my experiences with Qworst at work...