From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 07:53:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA16842 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:53:02 -0800 Received: from crab.xinside.com (crab.xinside.com [199.164.187.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA16834 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:53:00 -0800 Received: (from jdc@localhost) by crab.xinside.com (8.6.8/8.6.9) id IAA17389; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:54:27 -0700 From: Jeremy Chatfield Message-Id: <199503281554.IAA17389@crab.xinside.com> Subject: Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the To: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:54:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Alex R.N. Wetmore" at Mar 28, 95 09:43:55 am Organization: X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Phone: +1(303)470-5302 Reply-To: jdc@xinside.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1435 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex R.N. Wetmore writes: > > Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 28-Mar-95 Re: > Plug-n-Play Internet ac.. by Brian Tao@gate.sinica.ed > > * SLIP/PPP over dialup: The user should be able to run a > > configuration utility (using either dialog or lynx as the front > > end) that asks them for the ISP's name, phone number, connection > > rate, host IP address, gateway IP and nameserver IP. It would be > > great if we could somehow have an autolearn script that watches how > > a user initiates a session, but this might be infeasible. With > > this minimal set of information, the user should be able to connect > > their FreeBSD box and do simple things like ping, telnet or ftp to > > some other host on the Internet. Both static and dynamic IP > > addresses should be supported. > > I think Windows NT handles this very gracefully. For those who haven't > seen it, basically you fill out a dialog box with the above information ... Seyon will do some of this work, from an X Session. You get buttons, scripts per target system, etc. Worth checking out, I think. Cheers, JeremyC. -- Jeremy Chatfield, +1(303)470-5302, FAX:+1(303)470-5513, email:jdc@xinside.com X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Commercial X Server - for more information please try these services http://www.xinside.com info@xinside.com ftp.xinside.com