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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: PPP under BSD (have a heart) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats References: <317qnl$f1m@cyberspace.com> <michaelv.775404734@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Message-ID: <9407301508.37@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 20:08:38 GMT Lines: 35 Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : In <317qnl$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. I just use a script that executes pppd with the chat option to dial up and log me in automagically. Eventually, I'll be on line 24 hours a day, and I'll just run the script from rc.local. I'm running NetBSD. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com