Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 18:10:36 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Andy Holyer <andyh@pavilion.co.uk> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which PPP to use for a stand-alone router? Message-ID: <36DEBE8C.7168778@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <000401be665e$a2512b20$0100a8c0@learntheinternet.pavilion.co.uk>
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Hello, user-land PPP in 2.2.5-R is buggy, you should upgrade to at least 2.2.8 or rather 3.1 if you find the CDs You should stick to userland PPP as it is easier to debug. You can use a serial terminal as the console. TfH Andy Holyer wrote: > > Hi, > > I run FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on a client's machine, which I've set up as the > router for my LAN. Another client is about to upgrade his equipment, and > has an old 486. I'm pitching him that I'll set this up with FreeBSD to > provide him with a router/www proxy for his LAN (at the moment he has only > one machine net-connected using Dial-Up Networking. > > All my software comes from the 2.2.5 CDs supplied with Greg's book. > > There are a couple of queries I have. > > I find that user PPP falls over occasionally (it seems to be when there's a > lot of traffic going over the link). This is OK for my purposes, but no good > at all for a client. The version of Kernel PPP supplied with 2.2.5 doesn't > allow dial-on-demand connections. My questions are: > > 1) Is it worth installing a more recent release in order to get on-demand > pppd going? > > 1a) Would this deliver better performance than using user ppp? I could > always run a cron job to see if ppp has fallen over and to restart it if > need be. > > As a supplementary: > > 2) Is it possible to install FreeBSD so that it will boot with no Keyboard > and display attached? The punter is never going to want to log on, and it'll > make it much easier if I run samba and he can just look at logs etc using > notepad when he needs to. That way he can just leave the box locked in a > cupboard all the time. > > Thanks in advance for all advice. > > Andy Holyer, Learn the Internet Ltd., Lewes, UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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