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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dial-on-demand internet connection?
Date: 16 Aug 1995 07:19:39 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <40r65d$bc8@central.co.nz>,
Mark Penney <dreama@central.co.nz> wrote:
>Has anybody ever set up FreeBSD 2.0 as a dial-on-demand internet gateway?

For dial-on-demand, you really want FreeBSD 2.0.5.  It comes bundled
with a `ppp' command that does exactly what you're looking for and
I have a home setup almost identical to yours doing exactly that.

					Jordan