From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 13:13:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA21369 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:13:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu (beaver.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21360 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.com [128.95.3.1]) by beaver.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.1be+) with SMTP id NAA17619 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from tao.UUCP by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06700; Sun, 17 Dec 95 13:12:21 PST Received: by tao.thought.org (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tRPQk-0000aKC; Sun, 17 Dec 95 12:11 PST Message-Id: From: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) Subject: PPP, SLIP and modem questions... To: questions@freebsd.org (freebsd) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 12:11:32 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to get PPP (or SLIP) working on my new FreeBSD platform. With the scripts in /etc/ppp, I've got my USR 28.8 connecting to the USR at work. ...But don't I need to set the modem to _not_ drop DTR (&D0) before PPP will work? Is there a way to do this via software commands to the modem? With my WorldBlazer set in position "A", it is configured with (&D0) so that the slip program I wrote dials into work, connects, then kills the connection and exec's the slip script. The script slattach's me, does and ifconfig, the route add line, and telnet's me directly into the main server. It will probably take me a couple weeks to port this from my SVR4 (HDB uucp) over. Do I need to? Does /usr/sbin/sliplogin do this? To boil this down, I'm looking for a a way to get PPP (which is new to me) working. And SLIP, if possible. If this mail has confused the blazes out of you and you can send help, tips, config samples, I'd be much obliged! The PPP and SLIP FAQ's in /usr/share (v2.0.5) are a bit dated. (I'm willing to write up some new ones once I understand things.) Thanks to several people, I've made much faster progress that I'd imagined so far. Both tip and uucp work. SLIP and PPP are among the last things before I can retire my SVR4 and move up to FreeBSD. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public access uNix