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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.fibr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: newbie questions (stuff won't work) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:48:17 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 23 Message-ID: <334344A1.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <3342BE15.1E3B@bitstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: "Joseph G. Moore" <jomor@bitstream.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38398 Whoops! I forgot questions #2 and #3.. A bit hasty of me. :-) Joseph G. Moore wrote: > problem 2: I want to set up the FreeBSD box to handle forwarding and IP > aliasing acting as a gateway on my home LAN to my ISP. I got the > tutorial for doing this, but problems remain. The tutorial mentions > the "-alias" argument for loading "ppp". The version of "ppp" that I > got doesn't seem to support this. All I get is a "usage" nag when I It's in 2.2.1, not in 2.1.x. Perhaps that's the problem? > problem 3: I was warned about this before I loaded FreeBSD, but I went > ahead anyway... I've started spending way too much time at the console > and have every once in a while (like when something actually works)I > experience outbursts of maniacal laughter. Will this eventually go away? > or does it just get worse? It gets worse, often to the point where chronic sufferers undergo the worst, most horrible stage of all. They become FreeBSD developers. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.