From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 25 16:19:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA12446 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:19:56 -0800 Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA12440 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:19:53 -0800 Received: by saul2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA20608; Sat, 25 Feb 95 16:19:11 -0800 X-Sender: spaz@saul2.u.washington.edu Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:19:11 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz To: FreeBSD hackerlist Subject: Dynamic? PPP Server? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Folks; Friday afternoon at 455 pm ( what a perfect time for system administration ) one of my co workers remembered that the freebsd box that i had set up as a demo for them had the capability to do ppp and slip. He asked me to look into it. So I perused the PPP and slip doc and came up short in the answer dept. He asked if we could use it to allocate ip's from a collection of 8 or so that are loose on our subnet. I assume this what is called dynamic PPP? Is the allocation from an existing net even possible? One of the products they demo'd ( a terminal server of some kind ) had to have it's own subnet. Is this intrinsic to this kind of thing or was that just a problem with their product? The PPP.doc in /usr/share/FAQ only seemed to discuss how to do this as a one fixed address to another fixed address. Also, is this the circumstances in which the machine needs to be configured as a router or gateway? If doing the dynamic PPP server thing is being done by folks out there in FreeBSD land, I would like to hear from them and how they went about it. Btw it does not need to be PPP, I had heard that PPP was simpler and faster, so that is the only reason why i am asking about PPP as opposed to slip. I am the only individual who will be visiting it with a FreeBSD box there will be one linux and to trumpet winsock boxes as well. Does this add any complication? thanks again folks! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life