From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 9:19: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52771502A for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id SAA04046; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:14:20 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id SAA08396; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:13:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA17273; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:55:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27522; Thu, 4 Mar 99 18:05:28 +0100 Message-Id: <36DEBE8C.7168778@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 18:10:36 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Holyer Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Which PPP to use for a stand-alone router? References: <000401be665e$a2512b20$0100a8c0@learntheinternet.pavilion.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, user-land PPP in 2.2.5-R is buggy, you should upgrade to at least 2.2.8 or rather 3.1 if you find the CDs You should stick to userland PPP as it is easier to debug. You can use a serial terminal as the console. TfH Andy Holyer wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message