From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 14:42:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135541527E for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:42:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29069; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:12:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:12:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Allen Cleveland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup without connectivity? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991209044929.007cc330@mindsieve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Allen Cleveland wrote: > > Ok, it's a strange question. Here is my problem. > > I've got a dialup connection, but no modem in the fbsd box. I've a modem in > the win box and rsn I'll have a pppoe connection that I want to use the > fbsd box with. I see that there is support for pppoe via Netgraph in the > kernel, however to use this, I need to update my kernel and associated > files. I'd really rather not try to learn modem setup and ppp just to > update, because I'm guessing I'd need to get something to enable a modem > connection [that I probably don't have] on the fbsd box [as I never planned > on using fbsd over a modem]. > > Now the question. > > Using windows, is there a way to get *all* the cvsup files on the win box? > Assume I can ftp over my local private lan to - from the fbsd box to move > the file[s] to the fbsd box to do the actual update. Assume I don't know of > any way to use the windows box to act as a gateway for the fbsd box. > > I installed fbsd 3.1 from an iso image I burned with the win box, and if > that might be the best way, I'm happy to try that, as well. > > Ideas? Check the cvsup manpage, there are some flags to make it use only a single TCP connection, you can run a single port proxy from that port to any cvsup server on your windows box and have cvsup connect to the windows box. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message