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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:04:09 -0400
From:      Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsdq@pelleg.org>
To:        Lord Raiden <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Questions about dialup
Message-ID:  <15793.62201.321031.376678@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

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> 	Hi.  Got a quick question.  I'm unsure of the answer or where to 
> look.  I'm setting up one of our old machines as a freebsd dialup station 
> for work to test local pops for linux compatibility for a local ISP.  I 
> also want to use it as a way for me to learn how to dialup to the internet 
> using Freebsd.  Considering I've only ever used it on a network, this will 
> be new to me.  Can anyone recommend a good linux/freebsd dialer software I 
> could use?  I'm using freebsd 4.6 on the machine and would like to install 
> a dialer (and modem drivers if possible) so I can use it as a test dialer 
> station.

Just use the built-in dialer - it's called ppp. See the manpage for it, or
the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html

you shouldn't need to download any drivers, unless it's a Lucent Winmodem,
in which case the ltmdm port might prove helpful.

--
 Dan Pelleg


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