From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 29 13: 0:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C29C37B423; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:00:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA77833; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:45:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Haikal Saadh Cc: "'leegold'" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ppp.conf In-Reply-To: <001301c19079$66fc5520$62c801ca@warhawk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 Annelise I think the pedantic ppp.primer tutorial is out of date. Having out of date doco around can lead astray....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