Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:06:31 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Sandi Rakovec" <sandi.rakovec@siol.net> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Modem callback howto.. HELP. Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEHFCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBIANKMKBLOEMCBIFFOELDEJAA.sandi.rakovec@siol.net>
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Sandi, your idea may sound good on the surface, but there are some limits you need to consider before you go down this road to far. Today's motherboards only have two com ports, this translates to max of two external modems one to dial ISP and one to service dialin to your FBSD gateway box. If you want to use internal modems you are limited to 3. Even though FBSD has 4 sio defined in it's kernel source you can not use sio0 because FBSD needs this one to spawn sio's for other 3 internal modems. Even in this setup all you get is one modem dialout to isp and two dialin. There is no technical way to get com1 and com2 plus 4 pci modems or isa modems, there only so many irq to go around. To get additional serial ports you have to purchase a multi serial port board that shares one irq and put external modems on each serial port. Another thing you have to consider is a 56k modem at your users win box will not get anything better that 28.8 or 33.6 max connection speed to another 56k modem. You can not use cheap winmodems as FBSD does not have software drives for these mswindows modems. You have to use modems that have onboard controllers and dsp's. If you still want to do this with these limitations I can give you a user ppp config file that does dialout to isp and dialin for 2 modem. The user dialin and call back is just one additional option statement. Joe -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sandi Rakovec Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 3:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Modem callback howto.. HELP. Hello! I am looking for instructions on how to setup freeBSD (4.4 release) to act as ppp callback server, for windows clients. My windows clients can connect and connect to internet through my server and I would like to setup for allowed users a callback connection so that they don't pay for the connection anyithing. I have installed mgetty+sendfax. My web research have been not succesfull. Can someone please answer step by step instructions or point me to proper direction on the web. Best regards and thanks for answers! Sandi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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