Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a mini-isp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810061449391.19930-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810061111.AAA16456@witch.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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