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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: MORE->how to ppp with a TA with an rj45 not a serial connection to my machine???
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,
	fbsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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Hi Joe,
So what does that mean I do? Does that mean pppoe?
or does it mean I configure the ISDN router to be the
gateway?? and it does the rest magically! But hw can
it since the host has to have the dial configs?
Any ideas?
Thanks


 --- Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >
Generally, a TA has a serial port that plugs into a
> host computer.  The
> only ISDN equipment that I've seen that use ethernet
> are actual ISDN
> routers.  In the case of a router, the host simply
> talks ethernet to the
> router which in turn handles terminating the ISDN
> line and doing PPP.
> 
> Was there any documentation that came with this TA
> that explained what
> host protocol was required?
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Keith Spencer
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I am ok with terminal adapters with serial
> > connections, but this school has got itself a TA
> that
> > connects via cat 5 to a network card in the
> computer.
> > Hmmmm. so is that pppoe??? or what?
> > do I simply do in the ppp.conf
> > default:
> >  set device fxp0 or something??
> >
> > or do I have to do deeper spookier stuff.
> > At the moment an NT machine handles the dialing
> and it
> > uses something called DIVA miniwan
> > The Freebsd machine will now do the dialing but it
> has
> > to be easier than the dopey set up in NT...
> > Help pleez guys. I'd reaaly appreciate it
> > Keith spencer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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