From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 22:55:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA23785 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA23777 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00555; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:55:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tao Jiang cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set up dynamic ip ppp or slip connection? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Tao Jiang wrote: > Hi, can some one tell me step by step how I can set up my > freebsd 2.2 system to connect to my school which assign > dynamic ip address to me? Well, if I knew what your school did then I could help. For instance, do you want to do SLIP or PPP? (IMHO PPP is the better way to go) Do you have access to a ppp command on the remote to start the PPP session? Do you know the login sequence to start the ppp session on the remote? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major