From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:51:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04503 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10693; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a mini-isp In-Reply-To: <199810061111.AAA16456@witch.xtra.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Dan Langille wrote: > I want to try an experiment. Just to know how it's done. I'd like to > give dial-up access to the net to some friends through my home sub-net. > My underutilised ADSL connection can handle the traffic. The FreeBSD box > sure can. Is that OK with your service provider? With some ISPs that's a violation of your terms. > I can see I'd need to do some adduser stuff. But what would they see on > the other end? Most of these people won't want a shell account. They'll > want PPP (am I using the correct terms here). And most of them will be > Windows users. You'll need to set up ppp accounts for them. getty can be configured to make this easy, and the rest can be found in the Handbook. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message