Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:42:55 PST From: unahacker1@juno.com (I bA hAcKeR) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp or slip software Message-ID: <19961023.165144.8039.0.unahacker1@juno.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961023194409.2744A-100000@lib.amu.edu.pl>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:49:56 +0100 (MET) Bogusz Jelinski <bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl> 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
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