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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Modems & PPP Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:21:31 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31F64D8B.2C93@www.play-hookey.com> References: <a7f_9607220117@woodybbs.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 2.02 (Win16; I) John Woodstock wrote: > > Hello All! > > I just finished setting up FreeBSD 2.1 on roughly 5 machines here.. I also put > Linux on one of them, figured I'd see what it was all about.. > > Anyway, I'd like to hang a few modems off of the machines.. I'd like to have > one modem for outgoing to my ISP (I'm going with an on-demand static IP address > PPP account) I'd like to have another for inbound PPP (So I can dial in from my > laptop and get out to the Internet) and I'd like to have one for dial-in to a > normal shell account. I thought this would cover me.. > > Now the question.. I've played around for a couple of hours and have been able > to dial out on a comm port, but that's about it.. > > Anyone have a script that handles any of this or any pointers to what I do > exactly to get this all set-up?? > > Thanks in advance.. > RTHandbook and the sample files in /etc/ppp. NB: How many phone lines do you have? Are your computers networked? Do you have 'real' IP addresses for all of them, or only one? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |