From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13:54:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA27742 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:54:33 -0800 Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA27717 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:54:20 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA02496; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:54:38 -0800 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:54:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Masterson cc: "freebsd.questions" Subject: Re: Kernel config; MFS, tun or ijppp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: I can't answer your mfs question, but I can do this: > Also, in the config file, there are references to 'tun' & 'ijppp'. > Two of the lines were hashed out in the distribution package. Can I leave > it as it is, recompile & expect my ppp connection to work? Is ijppp a > newer & better version of tun? Leave the tun0 device. ijppp (aka ppp) uses it for it's connections. the ppp device is a leftover from pppd. > I have a static ip address from my dial-up service provider and hope > to run mosaic, netscape, chimera (atleast one - whatever is easy to > install). Netscape is the hardest, since you have to make a symlink from X11R6 to X11 so it can find some file. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major