From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 14 11:26:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD337B43F for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3EIQDP60106; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:26:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200104141826.f3EIQDP60106@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to dial into my BSD box for internet access(re-worded) In-Reply-To: Message from "G. Jason Middleton" of "Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:16:59 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:26:13 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "G. Jason Middleton" writes: > close but no cigar > > I need to be able to surf theweb from say..a windows client...i ned to > establish a PPP connection be assigned an IP most likely a 192.168.0.... > since all my boxes get access to the internet from behind a NATD box with > a firewall. > > this seems as though it is gonna be more difficult then i expected.. You just don't (yet) recognize a good cigar when you see one. First you have to get terminal access dial-in working. This is the best way to debug your modems. You have to get the dial-in modem behaving and automatically resetting and reconfiguring between calls. Then from within a shell login you could invoke pppd(8) on the command line. That is, once you configure pppd. Expect the ppp(8) utility could also be used but I never have. Or you could look into /usr/ports/comms/mgetty* and other techniques for bypassing the login-to-shell stage. But first you need the text dial-in working. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message