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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP under BSD (have a heart)
Date: 28 Jul 94 14:12:14 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <317qnl$f1m@cyberspace.com> monk@cyberspace.com (Robert Mobbs) writes:
>Now here's my problem: is PPP/SLIP any easier to configure with FreeBSD
>than LINUX? I have had a hell of a lot of trouble getting it to work
>under LINUX (shameful, with the cool job title I have ;) and I desperately
>want to establish a SLIP network link to my workplace, so I can do FTP,
>X, etc from home.
Well, I've never used Linux, so I can't tell you if it's any easier.
But it has certainly never been hard for me to do it under NetBSD.
With the client end of SLIP, I just dial into the SLIP router, escape
out of the term program, and type "slattach -h -s 57600" -- and it's
done. The SLIP server side is a little more complex, but not
overwhelming (setting up the slip.hosts and slip.login files).
PPP seems even easier. I just set up a .ppprc file with the options I
want (which are all explained in the man page), dial up the PPP
server, escape out of the term program, and type "pppd" -- and done.
The server side is almost as easy -- just set up a ppp dialin user
there, with a .ppprc file with the options you want, and set that
user's shell to /usr/sbin/pppd.
That doesn't seem so hard. :-) Of course, you will have to build a
kernel with a PPP and/or SLIP interface in it the first time. But
that's pretty simple too.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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