From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 22:16:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A611106566C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msabroff@sbcglobal.net) Received: from nm21.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (nm21.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [98.139.52.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A39F8FC25 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.52.192] by nm21.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2010 22:04:08 -0000 Received: from [98.139.52.131] by tm5.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2010 22:04:08 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1014.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Dec 2010 22:04:08 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 631124.23108.bm@omp1014.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 76464 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2010 22:04:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=5g4qu72T3xrBH/hyK/CMoVeZBfBWfnK4ShE1yeVDNPBB/Z+UUnjjKOrUJMvvzcels7aEyhD89MT8dCoolS/8hrgkZMR8OKmJb3IdflT+2wvSCtHrvUwXi6f8HEWA9lGfTZBI0t6cc/SxoNW3IpgKnaM4NTiiOBR3bdHAACU+GPM= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sbcglobal.net; s=s1024; t=1292364248; bh=1z3iIsJyi24lv5xbEi4ioOP7Y/twJMLwcZItFA5UznY=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WmA1tALIeAWuMTtipFabAn+t19BgI09m5lPCPycbA4e0LnAYnCpjjyjAElMiXELKXgTHnERqTwSTK/DRd5GKGxH5j2LMXJ0JWFmHlTNqNFd8Hm1oaW2gEOSWN6iOaXMgz/a7lwUa6f2b7CerIVJUgkWoKDo/SY/BaW+Chdu33Uw= Received: from bitmaster.sbcglobal.net (msabroff@76.201.155.35 with plain) by smtp103.sbc.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2010 14:04:08 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: qxPS84eswBDXQMciBWqnFk3B71TAaHjplCRZBBgYUAV9_JU- X-YMail-OSG: U0E_Xy8VM1lXMdIBXICf.x775vjLrZwa9h0PYFHYX6xaewv YaFMnn_7KrGSuH3aO6t_nPVLh.aMmkSUA.su_2tEtABrzer6uEcB.zLvSsn9 3NpjIlPNCwmCWmmbHZ0bOcPvQJTSx0Xum_pcvOIxVv3tngoHZtY6spbK5Qx_ f8NPjpIebqXNK8DnWF00nPYWKeyDr3Coe5dWwz4ExLSiLcfsSNZnAA5T5NcU 3pbqi7FcDGmL0jCg.3MF1Olhlb9k0s5xMz57PlPbmm4hAUUFRyZtQ84Bpyd2 q_cA8KVsQdgzwcYHk9Q7mA7BmJghmFseRU9DaGs7zeHMpd9Xsf_E47k1VYm1 mKNUF7t3smiS_NEfDuvDFED8z73qZTaKwI7f3aD30Kmk5YQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4D07E9D7.8090408@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:04:07 -0600 From: Mike Sabroff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4D07B4E2.1020007@sbcglobal.net> <4D07DD77.2010203@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D07DD77.2010203@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: /usr/ports/net/pptpclient X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:16:28 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/12/2010 18:18, Mike Sabroff wrote: I am trying to get a VPN connection to the office and after googleing, it looked like this would be a good choice for FreeBSD. I am running 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD. I had no problem building or installing, in fact it was fast and sweet! I followed some documentation I found on the setup and modifying the /etc/resolve.conf file and all went fine until I ran the script to invoke pptp and when it ran I got an error message stating basically that /usr/bin/ip was an unknown command. ip is a linux command but doesn't seem to be part of a default freebsd system and is not a dependency of the pptpclient port. My question is....What if any is the equivalent of ip on freebsd or which port would I install to get ip or it's equivalent? Most of the equivalent functionality of {/sbin,/usr/bin}/ip is provided by ifconfig(8) under FreeBSD -- plus some combination of route(8), ipfw(8) or pf(4) as well as (obviously) ppp(8) and a few other bits'n'bobs (all of which are part of the base OS). Which suggests that the instructions you're following are very much linux specific. Linux instructions tend to have this fatal flaw of working /on linux/ and almost but not quite working elsewhere. I'd hazard a guess that if it's anything useful, then someone has written a web page or blogged or otherwise created some sort of equivalent on FreeBSD, and that it is probably available on the web for the taking. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to type a suitably cunning Google search that reveals at least one example thereof. Cheers, Matthew Thanks for the info. I see what I can dig up.....or should I say "I accept the mission" and watch my monitor self destruct? mike