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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Andrew Perry wrote:

> I've managed to setup my freebsd machine to dial up my provider and my
> windows95 machine connects through it to the internet. 
> 
> someone has asked me if it is possible to connect a macintosh to a freebsd
> machine in a similar situation, where the freebsd machine connects and
> maintains the link and the macintosh (and probably a windows machine as
> well) connect through it, can this be done??
> 
> if so where does he start?

Yes.  

See the Handbook or the IP Aliasing tutorial at http://www.freebsd.org,
and the ppp man page.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major