From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 08:15:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA04329 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 08:15:58 -0700 Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA04321 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 08:15:55 -0700 Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00967; Mon, 15 May 1995 10:15:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 10:15:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Frank Durda IV cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Docs for both ends of SLIP/PPP connection? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 May 1995, Frank Durda IV wrote: > I have been asked the same question for the third time in as many weeks > so I thought I would ask it (once) here. > > Is there any step-by-step documents that describe how to set > up a SLIP and/or PPP connection on a FreeBSD system FOR BOTH ENDS? > That is, documentation that tells how to set up ports on a FreeBSD system > to act as SLIP/PPP ports to connect to (dial-in), AND documentation for how > to make an outgoing SLIP/PPP call using FreeBSD to a remote server, > possibly even a remote FreeBSD server? There are some docs -- are you able to view the information at "http://www.freebsd.org/HowTo/"? If so, you may want to check there since there has been some reorganization and new contributions in the past month or so. > These questions are coming from people where I work who have FreeBSD > systems at home and some at work, and they can't figure out how to > make SLIP or PPP work, particularly on the system that they dial-in to. > > There seems to be several examples and FAQs around (although some > seem out of date and contradictory) describing how to dial-out to > an ISP SLIP/PPP system. Yes, I believe the SLIP client FAQ could use some revision. > I haven't seen anything useful that covers how to set up the ISP side, > precautions to take, etc. The only FAQ I have seen had massive gaps > in information, such as assuming you already had /etc/ttys, gettys, the > kernel and other stuff set up "the right way" for SLIP/PPP to be used. > You wouldn't believe some of the "maybe it will work if I turn this > and this on" stuff I have seen by people trying to bridge the gaps. Well, at least some of the "massive gaps" are intentional -- the SLIP server tutorial isn't meant to cover the procedures for configuring dialup access to a system (and in fact a tutorial I've written has been critized because it contained too much info specific to kernel configuration, which should be covered by a separate tutorial). Please see the dialup tutorial (under "http://www.freebsd.org/HowTo/") for information on dialup services, and then go on to the SLIP server tutorial once dialup access works. I'm not sure what you mean by "precautions" -- can you elaborate? > Because of the problems, most are using Windows '95 on both ends so that > they can do SLIP/PPP, but they would rather use FreeBSD. > > Do these documents exist in an up-to-date, accurate form? Please > let me know. If they don't, is there someone willing to write one up? > I would strongly recommend including this material in 2.0.5. Thanks. You're certainly welcome to contribute! I've contributed a bit myself as time permits, but I'm just a volunteer just like everyone else on the Doc team. > Frank Durda IV |"The Knights who say "LETNi" Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu