From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 8:28:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959B5159F6 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA15557; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:26:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01604; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:27:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904080927.KAA01604@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kyle Buttress Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mgetty ppp dialin server? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:01:12 +1000." <370AF4A7.CF692477@pchost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 10:27:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At the moment I am trying to have my FreeBSD 3.1 box accept dialin, its > partially working. > > we I call up the modem answers and i get a terminal screen. > > how can I get it to pass over to ppp? Just start your local ppp software and mgetty will detect it and kick off ppp for you. [.....] > pap: > enable pap > set ifaddr 192.168.1.100 > enable proxy > accept dns [.....] Hmm, I'd assign the remote end an IP number (unless they're all assigned in ppp.secret of course). you should ensure that the number is in the correct range for your LAN if you're using ``enable proxy'' - something like set ifaddr 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.101-192.168.1.254 (or whatever). -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message