From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 17:19: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FE1154A1 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA61861; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:19:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA00283; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:18:54 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: argenis.tovar@compaq.com ("Tovar, Argenis") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:18:50 GMT Message-ID: <38432587.344959275@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Nov 1999 12:29:00 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD gateway, but the ISP is AOL. Since AOL seems >to require a special software to connect, I guess my question is: Can ppp be >configured to connect to AOL? and if not, Is there a port that allows me to >do so? I dont know for certain, but from what I understand, they use just regular PPP and PAP authentication. If so, see the files in /etc/ppp and have a look at the documentation on www.freebsd.org. My guess is plain old PPP and PAP for authentication will suffice. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message