From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 11: 9:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E4E119C6 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13721; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:09:20 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00918; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:48:12 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199902180848.IAA00918@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: buckaroo@ecn.net.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP arcana In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:44:35 +1000." <19990217222335.0302110FC9@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:48:11 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just type ``alias enable yes'' at the ppp prompt and enable your machine as a gateway in /etc/rc.conf. If you want ppp to run as a daemon, automate your login and run it non-interactively.... It's all in the man page. > Hi folks, I have a question regarding ppp. I managed to get a link working last > night (albeit without DNS, but that's quite OK for now) using the interactive > mode of ppp. Then I started to wonder - for using my BSD box as a router to the > outside world and doing IP masq-ing, should I be using ppp or pppd? > > The PPP (ppp pedantic primer) uses ppp, but then a guy who was helping for a > bit said "Use a DAEMON. That's what they're there for!" Which is the one I > want? > > Thanks, > Hamish -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message