Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: "'leegold'" <leegold@operamail.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ppp.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112291240410.77808-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <001301c19079$66fc5520$62c801ca@warhawk>
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > > ppp-on, ppp-off, what's ppp.conf.sample? Print it out and spend a > > > couple hrs figuring it out - is there a doc. that will take > > me thru it > > > line by line? Wwould be a real help for people of average > > > intelligence. > > The man does have a point, I think, maybe we should take the default and > papchap sections from ppp.conf.sample, and put it in > ppp.conf.sample.for.plain.old.ISP or something of the sort. As installed, there's a ppp.conf in /etc/ppp. All anyone usually needs to do is enter the phone number, username, and password in the papchap: section (and get the device right for the modem). The handbook has a good (but a bit incomplete, I think) "working file" for pppoe. > Speaking from personal experience, trying to construct my own ppp.conf > file from the man page/handbook led me to nothing but misery...took the I don't know why anyone tries to do this; the basics are there. Dialing in is more difficult...and the confusion between dialing out, dialing in, and user vs. kernel implementation. Annelise I think the pedantic ppp.primer tutorial is out of date. Having out of date doco around can lead astray.... -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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