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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!news.ossi.com!news.fujitsu.com!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!news.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet? Date: 16 Nov 1994 03:55:31 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov15195531@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <mark.1261.2EC9193C@novell.business.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: mark@novell.business.uwo.ca's message of Tue, 15 Nov 1994 20:25:32 GMT In article <mark.1261.2EC9193C@novell.business.uwo.ca> mark@novell.business.uwo.ca writes: If they setup a FreeBSD machine at their site, can it act as a router via SLIP? Yes. I do this all the time, albeit with ppp but there's no difference either way from the router's point of view. They would define the FreeBSD as their default gateway and the box would route onto the SLIP line. The slip line would have enough smarts to redial on loss of carrier and pass login info via script. Yup, all perfectly doable! I am not sure of the extent of SLIP/PPP support in freebsd (dialin, dialout or both) There's no on-demand dialing in the true sense (send a packet and it dials out), but you can have slattach or pppd invoke a dial script on initial connection and any time the carrier drops. Jordan