From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 09:07:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15236 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15213 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA24039; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:41:51 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA02583; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:34:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA24916; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:26:49 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12412; Tue, 6 Oct 98 17:27:36 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA298297279; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:21:20 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 98 17:21:06 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199810061111.AAA16456@witch.xtra.co.nz> Subject: Setting up a mini-isp Mime-Version: 1.0 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Setting" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Setting" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've set up a dial-in PPP server with FreeBSD 2.2.5-R. I've used mgetty (in the ports) and user-level PPP (all is almost correctly explained in the handbook) I've read in -questions that mgetty is probably not needed userland ppp and a modem configured to auto-answer should be ok. TfH PS : how do you hook up your FreeBSD box to the ADSL modem ? (via Ethernet ?) how is the IP address allocated ? (DHCP ?) > I want to try an experiment. Just to know how it's done. I'd like to > give dial-up access to the net to some friends through my home sub-net. > My underutilised ADSL connection can handle the traffic. The FreeBSD box > sure can. > > I can see I'd need to do some adduser stuff. But what would they see on > the other end? Most of these people won't want a shell account. They'll > want PPP (am I using the correct terms here). And most of them will be > Windows users. > > What would I need to do? Point me in the right direction please. > > -- > Dan Langille > DVL Software Limited > The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures > http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message