Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:19:33 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Allan Bowhill" <abowhill@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem Message-ID: <opry4jmvvj0cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20031123153005.GB33848@kosmos.my.net> References: <20031123142814.96294.qmail@web14705.mail.yahoo.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEAKEOAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> <bpqslf$nud$2@sea.gmane.org> <opry4ggtfh0cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com> <20031123153005.GB33848@kosmos.my.net>
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:30:05 -0800, Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net> wrote: > On 0, Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> wrote: > :The best tutorial I've seen on this remains <URL: > :http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/14/FreeBSD_Basics.html>. 3 > years > :ago as a newbie it was far easier for me to understand than the > Handbook. > :One thing has changed in those 3 years: The user wanting to access the > Net > :must be a member of the 'dialer' group. > > Actually, the group is "network" The article does note that membership in the 'network' group is necessary. But membership in the 'dialer' group is *also* necessary (at least in 5.x - I assume from your message that it may not be necessary in 4.x), and it wasn't AFAIK at the time the article was published. (Or maybe that was because I was using 4.x at the time? Oh well, maybe someone can enlighten me here....) > IMHO, the best resource for user ppp is still the manpage. Probably > one of the best-written manpages there are. I had a rough time with the man page myself. The tutorial, instead of providing what may be an overwhelming number of possible options to a newbie, describes a very simple step-by-step procedure. Jud
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