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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a PPP manual ? Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:51:05 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 44 Message-ID: <320769E9.49A9@www.play-hookey.com> References: <DvpK8D.DHu.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> 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) Robert Chalmers wrote: > > No, I don't mean the man pages. I mean a definitive, clear > set of instructions for implementing PPPD. > > It seems that FreeBSD can be used as a gateway, from a network to > the internet, via an ISP. Trouble is figuring out how to do that. > > On a standard PC, ie; 2 com ports, how does one do the following :- > > 1. Setup com2 for dial out at 38K > > 2. Set up PPPD to dial up the ISP and stay connected, re-connecting > if there is a down. Based on a permanent connection. > > 3. Route traffic from the network to which it is attached > by Ethernet, out to the Internet, and pickup > traffic from the Internet for the internal > network. Not acting as a DNS server, just a router? > > Is this possible with FreeBSD? > Easily -- my site does just that, except that I start at 115200 just for luck. Read the Handbook as well as the man page on pppd. Especially read about the /etc/ppp/options file, which is where pppd is controlled/configured. Mine starts from /etc/rc.local with the line: pppd /dev/cuaa1 115200 In case the ip-down check doesn't work, I also have a cron task running every 5 minutes to ping my ISP connect port. If that fails, the script kills off pppd and restarts. All the info is there fore you, but you do have to read it carefully! I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |