Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 18:07:48 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Cc: Andy Holyer <andyh@pavilion.co.uk>, Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which PPP to use for a stand-alone router? Message-ID: <199903041807.SAA05494@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 18:10:36 %2B0100." <36DEBE8C.7168778@telspace.alcatel.fr>
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And you can upgrade ppp without doing the whole OS by going to http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html :-) > 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 -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; 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
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