From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 14 21:48:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1out.umbc.edu (mx1out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DBB37B443 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 21:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from irix2.gl.umbc.edu (gmiddl1@irix2.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.11]) by mx1out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA17244; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:48:22 -0400 From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: David Kelly Cc: Beech Rintoul , Subject: Re: how to dial into my BSD box for internet access(re-worded) In-Reply-To: <200104141826.f3EIQDP60106@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cuban all the way my friend...i did realize that after i sent you the email about no cigar! thanks for your help! G. Jason Middleton On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: > "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. > > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message