From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 14 07:38:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA24837 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 07:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA24811 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 07:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id WAA24360 for isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:35:40 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id VAA04584 for isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:04:16 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706141304.VAA04584@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Internet providers discouraging customers from unix To: isp@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 21:04:15 +0800 (TSD) In-Reply-To: <339EA0C2.41C67EA6@tri-lakes.net> from "Chris Dillon" at "Jun 11, 97 12:57:48 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Dillon wrote: > I frequent #FreeBSD on the Undernet (actually, I'm the channel owner) > and used to get frequent pleas for help in setting up userland-ppp (I > won't even get into kernel-ppp ) and had to finally create my own > little step-by-step help file to help people get it set up. The manpage > for ppp in FBSD 2.1.x and even the FAQ didn't seem to help them much > (They were informational enough for me, at least). For me too, with one exception. I would not have been able to set up dial on demand on a dynamic IP address if I had not read the "Pedantic PPP Primer". -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm