From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 20:14:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA15000 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA14985 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA01427; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708290552.XAA01427@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: rjob@gulftel.com CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp and internal modem In-Reply-To: <3404CEFA.BDA4221F@gulftel.com> References: <3404CEFA.BDA4221F@gulftel.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk bob olbrich writes: > Here's some new thoughts. During the FreeBSD installation procedure >you have to select "ppp interface on serial port 1 (com2)". This >sounds strange. We are trying for com1 are we not. No. Like all reasonable systems, UNIX begins labelling serial ports and other resources with the first counting number, 0. If you have two serial ports, they are numbered 0 and 1. DOS, developed by illiterates for illiterates, calls these COM1 and COM2. If you select the ppp interface on serial port one, otherwise known as sio1, you will be using the interface DOS calls COM2. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com