From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 8:22:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.takas.lt (srvr2.telecom.lt [212.59.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BFC937B407 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edward_gess@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (dialup541.vln.takas.lt [212.59.29.245]) by mail.takas.lt (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA1461027 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:22:29 +0200 (GMT+0200) Message-ID: <3B7A9418.9C478FE2@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:24:08 +0200 From: Edward Gess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gateways, routers, isp... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I would like to know how works connection to my ISP, where I could find documentation or any information how works dial-up(other) connection(s) and how my ISP gives me an IP address, how it controls it and so on... Why do we need gateway's IP address in routing table, we never using it in outgoing packets! And one more, what text editor are you using? (tell truth, it is for statistics) Thanks anyway! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message