From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 9:34:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2D737B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8520A43E97 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba [68.98.30.144] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A815CAE00EC; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:34:29 -0400 From: "Brent Wiese" To: Subject: RE: PPP Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:34:28 -0700 Message-ID: <029301c276c4$3b39da70$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > > Hi all, > > I have a question related to PPP. I have a FreeBSD -STABLE > box set up as a gateway to a dial up account with Internode. > > I have also 2 Windows boxes with the default gateway set to > the FreeBSD box. > > Question: Is there anyway to set up an Icon on a Windows box > that will dial up the > modem that's hanging off of the FreeBSD gateway. > [ssh'ing in and running ppp manually is to much of > an ask for people that want to use > a computer to actually do work ;-)]. > > Has anyone done this before. I'm going to venture a guess that you want a dial-on-demand setup. Look at mpd (/usr/ports/net/mpd). Current version is 3.9. Should do what you want. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message