From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 18:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26516 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x10.boston.juno.com (x10.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26510 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from unahacker1@juno.com) by x10.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id UAA23188; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:42:40 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:42:55 PST Subject: Re: ppp or slip software Message-ID: <19961023.165144.8039.0.unahacker1@juno.com> References: X-Mailer: Juno 1.15 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0,2-19,24-25 From: unahacker1@juno.com (I bA hAcKeR) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:49:56 +0100 (MET) Bogusz Jelinski writes: > > >On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, I bA hAcKeR wrote: > >> what kind of software would you need for a person to dial into a >freebsd >> OS and for the OS to give the user and ip address so he could get >> connected to whatever (www, etc.) >> >To dial into FreeBSD you need only a modem, but to asign >the IP to any other computer, so that it could communicate >with the Internet via TCP/IP (www, telnet, ftp and so on), >you need one of the two protocols you mentioned. PPP is >a substitute for SLIP, is newer, more robust. > >Bogusz > I meant that if I had a freebsd system and I wanted somebody else to dial into that system and the freebsd system giving the person that dialed in a ip address or anything that would allow them to activate Netscape, etc. What software would allow that or is it already with the OS? Thanks