From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 22:59:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16974 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:59:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16961 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25256; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:58:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:58:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "James A. Mutter" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP & LAN In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, James A. Mutter wrote: > > I have a few questions about getting PPP going on a machine which is > primarily intended for use on a LAN. > > The LAN connection is fine, but PPP just doesn't work. I had it working > at one time, but since then I had to reinstall, and unfortunately didn't > have any backups. Well, what's not working about it? > /etc/resolv.conf > domain xbill.net > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > /etc/host.conf > bind > hosts Looks good to me. > I'm trying to get PPP together just so that I can do the occasional 'sup. > What do I need to do here? I think I'm missing something to the effect of > ifconfig_tun0_alias="192.153.35.136 netmask 0xffffffff" in rc.conf. But > that still doesn't tell me how I am going to resolv names for the > Internet. No, you do _not_ want to ifconfig tun0, ppp will do this for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message