Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:35:41 +0000 () From: Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br> To: Robert Wise <rob@flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951118162556.559A-100000@cwbtwo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951117171044.1311A-100000@flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au>
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About setting a machine as a ppp server.... I've done it in this site here in Brazil. I run a machine (big) with 4.2Gb and two ethernet boards. one of the boards is connected to 2 small machines (486/dx2/66 with 8Mb of memory, 170Mb of disk and a dumb serial card of 16 ports). I configured the system in this small boxes as having 16 ppp (not ijppp) lines. There is a small shell with is executed by the users as they logged in, this script searches a table of ip's and finaly executes pppd passive :xx.xx.xx.xx so the ip is attached to the port, not the user. There is a nfs mount of /home for the users, and a nis/yp for enabling users to login from any machine... Building this small machine is cheaper than other solutions, as a whole machine with the dumb card is 1500.00 dollars... Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.
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