From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 10: 0:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richardson.apana.org.au (richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBE8515C8A for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from young@richardson.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy [203.3.126.129] by richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.T) for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:10:22 +1000 Message-ID: <002301beefd5$a9a9c2a0$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Young" To: Cc: Subject: Re: aliening and freetel Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:14:13 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: young@richardson.apana.org.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I used to maintain that I could setup a NAT dial out on an NT Server >faster than I could setup ppp on FreeBSD. That is still true but only >if you haven't setup a FreeBSD kernel for a gateway. I used pmdemand >basically right out of the sample file. I did delete everything in >ppp.linkup and ppp.linkdown until I was left with > >pmdemand: > delete ALL > add 0 0 HISADDR > >for a linkup and > >pmdemand: > iface clear > >for a linkdown. > I wish it was that simple ..... its taken me several weeks so far with BSD and only just making a bit of progress now (well hopefully anyway). I wonder what shareholding some of the MAN producers have in companies that produce headache pills ?? .... but then its not the first time I've been called a bit cynical With MSWin and *nix interfaces like KDE, setting up PPP is 99% GUI, which I find infinitely more intuitive, however there are some brilliant CLI style PPP config utilities out there for linux (eg wvdial) and I guess its only a matter of time before someone ports them to BSD. The FreeBSD PPP script from ftp://flag.blackened.net/pub/freebsd/ppp_script.sh I just found looks really interesting so I'll try that in a few minutes. Also discovered a nice utility by name of "mtools". for working with DOS floppies. It looks a good way to get around that "mount' insanity, so instead of trying to remember "n" lines of weird commands I just need to download the script from the FTP site to floppy and mcopy it into the BSD box ...... instead of spending the whole weekend typing 9 pages of stuff that will most probably have to be re-done in a day or so (probably a few hours judging from past events) when I break the BSD box again. >I set timeout to 600 because I want ppp to drop the line after 10 mins >of inactivity and not my ISP. I also wanted the connect speed to be >logged in the ppp.log. I invoke ppp with > >"ppp -auto pmdemand" > >The alias enable in pmdemand in ppp.conf is already established. How do you figure that .... its not at all clear to me whats enabled in all that verbiage ..... I guess its all relevant to "something", but unless you know your way around pp.conf its hard to know what to do with 95% of the lines. I think the BSD Handbook makes a fair attempt to guide users through pp.conf, but it could be improved significantly with a few sample ppp.conf that are typical of & relevant to the various setups, some screen dumps showing a more graphical view of what parts of PP.conf should look like, and especially more attention to placement of spaces, indents etc. or To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message