From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 20:55:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4F314DC6 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA14317; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:51:41 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:51:41 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Ken Seggerman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Macintosh => FreeBSD => Internet In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I am thinking about connecting a Macintosh (as client) to my PC (as > server) running FreeBSD 3.1 via an ethernet link. > > Once this connection is up and running, would I then be able to open a > dial-up PPP connection on the PC to my ISP and communicate (telnet, ftp, > http) from both machines simultaneously over the single PPP connection? Yes. "ppp -auto -alias ispentry" is what you want. > Would I be able to add a third machine (such as a laptop running FreeBSD) > over ethernet without using a router? Yes. Jonathan Chen ----- char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message