From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 20 19:07:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04380 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04346 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00308; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:05:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Childs cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOC SUBMIT: PPP Server Setup In-Reply-To: <199609200830.SAA09909@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Peter Childs wrote: > : I've designed it with Section 10.X or 11.X in mind, it may require > : modification if you have other ideas on where to put it. > > From what i can see of the handbook at the moment we have... > > 12. PPP and SLIP > 12.1. Setting up user PPP > 12.2. Setting up kernel PPP > 12.3. Setting up a SLIP client > 12.4. Setting up a SLIP server > > which seems a little wierd. I checked out the above mentioned document, > and think its great - but user ppp can also be used in a server configuration, > and enables support of pred1 compression, and other neat things... Very true. From what I understand though, iijppp has some bugs (spontaneously closing, not quitting after hangup) that may not be conductive to using it as a server. This is what I understand from -questions, reality may vary :-) > Perhaps we should restructure this section as > > 12. PPP and SLIP > 12.1 Setting up a PPP client > 12.1.1 Using user PPP > ... etc.. > 12.1.2 Using kernel PPP > ... etc.. > > 12.2 Setting up a PPP server > 12.2.1 Using user PPP > ... etc.. > 12.2.2 Using kernel PPP > ... etc.. > > 12.3 Setting up a SLIP client > 12.4 Setting up a SLIP server > > Thoughts? Comments? I'm quite happy to write up the document on using > user PPP as a server if there is a need. That would be great. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major