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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!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!mr.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!newsie.dmc.com!news.zipnet.net!usenet From: Justin Seger <jseger@zipnet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a PPP manual ? Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 11:22:27 -0400 Organization: ZIPNET.NET - The NorthEast US's premier ISP Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3215E3B3.2BD1@zipnet.net> References: <DvpK8D.DHu.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <320769E9.49A9@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: jseger@zipnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ip15-max1-bos.zipnet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (WinNT; I) Ken Bigelow wrote: > > 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. I'm setting up a similar thing but have been using the user ppp (tun0). Can this be down with user ppp or must I switch to the kernel implementation? Im running 2.0.5 (upgrading to 2.1.5 this weekend.) Thanks in advance, -Justin Seger-