From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 18:19:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sequoia.astea.com.au (sequoia.astea.com.au [203.20.95.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E770014E6D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from betterformat@astea.com.au) Received: from guildenstern.astea.com.au by sequoia.astea.com.au via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 22 Sep 1999 01:19:37 UT Received: from kliger.astea.com.au (kliger.astea.com.au [222.2.2.50]) by astea.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05619 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:23:14 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199909220123.LAA05619@astea.com.au> From: "betterformat" To: Subject: Re: your mail Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:09:33 +1000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just a thought, but is there any reason why the original poster wouldn't use BNC for this senario? - except for the obvious, which would be the absence of combo cards. It would be more flexible in terms of minor additions to his/her network. Leo ---------- > From: Chad R. Larson > To: wwoods@cybcon.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG; stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: your mail > Date: Wednesday, 22 September 1999 06:47 AM > > As I recall, wwoods@cybcon.com wrote: > > OK, this is what I am looking at doing.. > > the easiest way to describe this is with > > a picture... > > > > ------------ ----------- dial > > | |---->| |---------> ISP > > | Alpha | | X86 | up ppp > > |----------| |---------| > > > > I have a crossover cable that I plan on useing to network the two > > systems together and I was wondering where I would look for the > > instructions on how to set up the networking between the two boxes. I > > know I need to use ppp -alias (my isp) for the dialing out. > > > > Any pointers greatly appreciated. > > > > William > > Look in the tutorials section. There's something called the > "Pendantic PPP tutorial" that tells in excrutiating detail how to > do exactly what you're asking. > > On a 3.2 system, it's in /usr/doc/en/tutorials/ppp (from memory, > don't quote me). > > Or try "locate tutorial | grep ppp", perhaps. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > 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