From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 15:38:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11217 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail (mail.bcpl.lib.md.us [204.255.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11207 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp135.bcpl.lib.md.us by mail (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA10177; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:35:50 +0500 Received: by ppp135.bcpl.lib.md.us with Microsoft Mail id <01BB7B21.367B2D40@ppp135.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:35:26 -0400 Message-Id: <01BB7B21.367B2D40@ppp135.bcpl.lib.md.us> From: Anil John To: "'Annelise Anderson'" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: user PPP server problem Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:35:24 -0400 Encoding: 18 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson[SMTP:andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu] wrote: >Oh, I see. Haven't done anything like that myself. However, I have used >Win95 to dial Stanford, which assigns dynamic IP addresses...Win95 does >this quite easily, and without any script or the scripting tool if you're >willing to type in your username and password every time. Or don't you >have a modem on the Win95 box? >> Yes I do have a modem on the Win95 box and I have no problems using to to access the internet. >But it seems to me you're talking about dialing an ISP from one machine >(running FreeBSD) and expecting another machine (running Win95) connected >to it via ethernet to be able to use the connection to the ISP to browse, >telnet, ping, etc. the outside world. I don't even know if this is >possible. Exactly... Hey, what can I say..Having two network capable computers at home just begs to have an in home network :) Anil