Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:47:04 -0000 From: "Andy Holyer" <andyh@pavilion.co.uk> To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Which PPP to use for a stand-alone router? Message-ID: <000401be665e$a2512b20$0100a8c0@learntheinternet.pavilion.co.uk>
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Hi, I run FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on a client's machine, which I've set up as the router for my LAN. Another client is about to upgrade his equipment, and has an old 486. I'm pitching him that I'll set this up with FreeBSD to provide him with a router/www proxy for his LAN (at the moment he has only one machine net-connected using Dial-Up Networking. All my software comes from the 2.2.5 CDs supplied with Greg's book. There are a couple of queries I have. I find that user PPP falls over occasionally (it seems to be when there's a lot of traffic going over the link). This is OK for my purposes, but no good at all for a client. The version of Kernel PPP supplied with 2.2.5 doesn't allow dial-on-demand connections. My questions are: 1) Is it worth installing a more recent release in order to get on-demand pppd going? 1a) Would this deliver better performance than using user ppp? I could always run a cron job to see if ppp has fallen over and to restart it if need be. As a supplementary: 2) Is it possible to install FreeBSD so that it will boot with no Keyboard and display attached? The punter is never going to want to log on, and it'll make it much easier if I run samba and he can just look at logs etc using notepad when he needs to. That way he can just leave the box locked in a cupboard all the time. Thanks in advance for all advice. Andy Holyer, Learn the Internet Ltd., Lewes, UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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