Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:05:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: jbrann@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP on demand. Message-ID: <199604211805.UAA05215@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960420185652.15232A-100000@ian.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Apr 20, 96 06:59:55 pm
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Khetan Gajjar writes:
>
> On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, John Brann wrote:
>
>> outside world. This may be something you did deliberately ('ping chain')
>> or implicitly. The normal reason for this behaviour is name resolution.
>
> Thought of this one already. My host.conf has the hosts first,
> and then bind.
>
> Another thing is what should the correct entries be in my ppp.conf (re
> ifaddr and add route) and my sysconfig (re: ifconfig_tun0, static_routes and
> route_multicast) ?
>
> Basically, what I am looking for is this : someone who has gotten (with
> just standard stuff that ships with 2.1r) FreeBSD to dial into their
> ISP when they need to (eg. telnet somewhere or check mail) and have
> the routing, etc working fine.
>
> I think I have gotten it working fine, but don't know if maybe I'm doing
> something patently stupid.
>
> I am ordering the FreeBSD handbook from Walnut Creek; maybe that will
> answer some questions.
I'm afraid not. It doesn't cover networking at all. The networking
book is in the works, however.
Greg
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