From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 10:41:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA11603 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 10:41:52 -0800 Received: from cwbtwo.bsi.com.br ([200.250.250.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA11592 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 10:41:42 -0800 Received: (from lenzi@localhost) by cwbtwo.bsi.com.br (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA00604; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:35:42 GMT Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:35:41 +0000 () From: Sergio Lenzi To: Robert Wise cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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.