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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!gatech!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!exit.com!exit.com!not-for-mail From: frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5, pppd and more ... Date: 26 Jul 1995 14:13:54 -0700 Organization: Subversive Atheists -R- Us Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3v6b6i$qhb@exit.com> References: <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.lynet.de> <3v1k54$ec1@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: exit.com X-Copyright0: Copyright 1995 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. In article <3v1k54$ec1@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.lynet.de>, Uwe Gruentjes <uweg@lynet.de> wrote: >>- Does pppd (the one that comes with the system) work? >Yes, but not for doing this: >>- How do I initiate a communications link (dial on demand) when >> somebody requests an internet service? >>- How do I close the communications link when the service isn't needed >> any longer? >Both of these services are provided by ijppp (/usr/bin/ppp) in FreeBSD >2.0.5. They were not, unfortuantely, part of 1.1.5[.1] nor would they >be easy to add due to the lack of a tunneling device driver in 1.x. Jordan, iij-ppp version 0.93 (I believe) contains a tunneling device driver for FreeBSD 1.1.5. I'm running it at home, it works fine. Version 0.94beta does not, but the older driver works fine with the newer PPP, at least so far. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com