Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:07:03 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "Matthew, Kristina and Ethan" <mcgrawfam@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <40355DB7.20605@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040219225037.GA50013@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040219220232.76606.qmail@web41609.mail.yahoo.com> <20040219225037.GA50013@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:02:32PM -0800, Matthew, Kristina and Ethan wrote: > > > >>i have a mac osx machine and a freebsd 4.4 machine >>connected via a crossover cable for a small network. >>i have been able to figure out NFS, Apache, FTP etc. >>and so far it's really fun. what i'd like to be able >>to do is as follows: >> >>i have a modem on my bsd box and it connects via ppp >>to a dial-up isp. i would like to configure such that >>when i request an internet site from my mac, the bsd >>box dials up the isp and acts as a gateway until i'm >>done online, then disconnects... >> >>is this possible, is it really complicated? >> >> > >It's certainly possible, and it's not too difficult. Start by setting >up PPP on the FreeBSD box -- there's plenty of examples and howtos >around to help you do that, particularly: > > ppp(8) > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html > > /usr/share/examples/ppp > >I recommend you use the user-mode PPP if you're just using a standard >POTS dialup. You will want to use the ppp -nat command line option. > > She probably also wants "-auto" if she wants the FBSD box to dial on request, etc. <I don't do it that way, though.> IIRC, when I tried, the clients timed out before the ISP link came up on the FBSD box, so she may need to adjust settings on the Mac to allow for longer timeouts. I did find the handbook's PPP section quite helpful, though. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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