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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: connecting to isp w/ dynamic ip (ppp) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 08:29:51 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31B061EF.15D0@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4on34v$1bo@brtph500.bnr.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Tom Misiak wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to bsd and unix in general. I would like to be able to > configure my network and connect to my isp from within bsd instead of having to > use Winsock under windows. My isp uses PPP with dynamic IP assignment. I > would appreciate any help or pointers to literature/web sites that could help > me. TIA, Tom Start with the man pages on pppd and user ppp, and check the handbook section on this. They have a pretty complete description between them of both methods, and the files required by either option in /etc/ppp. This directory already contains some sample configuration files for the user ppp approach. My system is online constantly, so I'm using pppd and the /etc/ppp/options file. If you plan to dial up only occasionally, you'll probably want the user ppp method. I hope this helps! Ken