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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.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.stealth.net!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which PPP to receive dialup connections? Date: 24 Aug 1996 07:37:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4vmbgb$96f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <321E398A.5E7B@sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Dave Blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote: > I have been using freebsd 2.0.5 to connect to my ISP via dial out with > no problem but now I need to use the machine to receive incoming PPP > connections from other machines. So here are some questions: > > - Should I use pppiij or pppd? I prefer pppd in this case, it's IMVHO easier to setup as a daemon. I usually write a small wrapper (/usr/local/sbin/ppplogin) that computes the required data like IP addresses, and finally exec's pppd with the appropriate arguments. > - I understand the modem setup no problem but what is the sequence that > freebsd uses to handle the incoming call? Nothing. Your modem must have stored the required data in its NVRAM, and the getty must be running at the right speed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)