From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 22:34:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86E137B408 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8C5XU566993; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:33:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8C5Z4k41121; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:35:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:35:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Cc: fbsd Subject: Re: MORE->how to ppp with a TA with an rj45 not a serial connection to my machine??? In-Reply-To: <20010912050601.48445.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010912013238.T40372-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Like I said, I've never seen a TA that used ethernet. I used to have a Motorola BitSurfer that used RS-232 to connect to the host machine. In this config, I used PPP. The only ethernet-based ISDN devices I've used in production were a Cisco 776 and a Cisco 802. Both of these did the call setup and PPP negotiation with the remote end. They then routed traffic from the ethernet LAN. The host machine only talked IP over ethernet. Joe On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Keith Spencer wrote: > 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 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel > > > - Got Itchy feet? Get inspired! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > > of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > > the message > > http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel > - Got Itchy feet? Get inspired! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message