From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 23 2:17:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe17.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.148.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C327F37B76D for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 02:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from animotions@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 96875 invoked by uid 65534); 23 May 2000 09:17:47 -0000 Message-ID: <20000523091747.96874.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [206.163.180.21] From: "msmouse" To: Subject: PPP Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 02:27:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFC45E.78231C00" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFC45E.78231C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was looking over the PPP tutorials and it seems they are falling short = on instructions. If you look at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/x524.html they hint = about IP Aliasing, Network Address Translation, Address Masquerading, = and Transparent Proxying. But they don't tell you how to do it. As a = newbie to freeBSD I find the ppp section lacking in good well written = instructions, also it does not seem up to date with the current version = of PPP, for example ppp 2.24 does not have the -alias switch but rather = the -nat switch. I would pester the news groups but I'm sure it gets annnoying for = everybody to have to answer the same questions over and over in hopes = that somebody will update the documentation that's available on your web = site. I certainly hope that the on-line documentation gets updated, verified, = and tested for functionality. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFC45E.78231C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I was looking over the PPP tutorials and it seems = they are=20 falling short on instructions.

If you look at http://www.freebs= d.org/tutorials/ppp/x524.html they hint=20 about IP Aliasing, Network Address Translation, Address Masquerading, = and=20 Transparent Proxying. But they don't tell you how to do it. = As a=20 newbie to freeBSD I find the ppp section lacking in good well written=20 instructions, also it does not seem up to date with the current version = of PPP,=20 for example ppp 2.24 does not have the -alias switch but rather the -nat = switch.

I would pester the news groups but I'm sure it gets = annnoying=20 for everybody to have to answer the same questions over and over in = hopes that=20 somebody will update the documentation that's available on your web = site.

I certainly hope that the on-line documentation gets = updated,=20 verified, and tested for functionality.

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