From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 10:40:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02547 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz (witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02534 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA22262; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:40:09 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199810061740.GAA22262@witch.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:40:17 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Setting up a mini-isp Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: References: <199810061111.AAA16456@witch.xtra.co.nz> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Oct 98, at 17:21, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > I've set up a dial-in PPP server with FreeBSD 2.2.5-R. > I've used mgetty (in the ports) and user-level PPP (all is almost > correctly explained in the handbook) > I've read in -questions that mgetty is probably not needed userland ppp > and a modem configured to auto-answer should be ok. Thanks for that. I'll look into it. > PS : > how do you hook up your FreeBSD box to the ADSL modem ? (via Ethernet ?) > how is the IP address allocated ? (DHCP ?) Yes. There's a CAT5 cable from the ADSL modem (it's not *really* a modem is it?) to my FreeBSD box. It's running Ethernet. And yes, it is DHCP. There's a topology diagram on my website. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message