Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:36:44 +1000 From: young@richardson.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dialin PPP Message-ID: <19990909014406.4E2E915F0B@hub.freebsd.org>
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Would someone please enlighten me on dialin issues The relevant part of the Handbook seems to suggest that kernel-ppp is used http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/dialup.html instead of the user-ppp that I have for dialout to ISP. Is this likely to cause a conflict due to two different sorts of processes accessing the ppp component at the same time ?? I've been some stuff called PPP-KIT that apparently was prepared by a guy "danny@freebsd.org" who appears to come from Melbourne Australia thats supposed to help with setting this stuff up so it works without the user having to be an expert (see the ReadMe file from the PPP-KIT below). Since there have been a few changes in the way FreeBSD does things over the past year or so, and as I understand 3.3 is coming very shortly, I'd appreciate any comments as to (1) Are there are conflicts using user-ppp & kernel-ppp at same time (2) Is it possible to tell if the PPP-KIT is relevant to present versions (3) Is there an advantage in using mgetty instead of getty .... and if so is it simply a matter of replacing references to getty or is there other stuff that needs to be done to use mgetty +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PPPKIT - A kit for using FreeBSD as a PPP terminal server. This kit provides all you need to make a FreeBSD box into a PAP login terminal server using the system password file for authentication. Its home is <ftp://ftp.hilink.com.au/pub/FreeBSD/pppkit.tgz>; Comments to <danny@freebsd.org> Useful stuff for everyone: 1. /bin/ppplogin.sh (should go in /usr/local/bin) which is a login shell for ppp users, and a pppd starter for getty. 2. /etc/gettytab - note the 'pp=' field in std.57600 & co. 3. /etc/ppp/ppp.ports - ports and IP addresses for ppplogin.sh 4. /etc/ppp/ppp.users - IP addresses for users with static IP addresses 5. /etc/ppp/ppp.deny - unames of users not allowed to use PPP 6. /etc/ppp/ppp.shells - allowed shells for a ppp session Installation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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