From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 5:39:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAB337B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:39:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from epn-srjg70atgcv.earthlink.net (pool0744.cvx23-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.206.234]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA04972 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:39:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.19980125170425.00b00238@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: shenlin@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:39:36 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Shen Lin Subject: 3COM/USR 5610A & More... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was reading through various PPP configuration tutorials and was wondering if I could use my 3COM/USR 5610A PCI modem. I see that you have to explicitly set COM ports in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. What do I set for 'set device' on a PCI modem with no COM/IRQ jumpers? Does FreeBSD automatically allocate an open COM port for PCI modems w/o COM/IRQ jumpers? Is there a command that I could run to find out which COM port the device is set as? I took a look at the output of dmesg, to no avail. Also, is it possible to dial out of my Win2K Pro box, executing the ppp daemon FreeBSD automatically (on-demand)? Give the Win2K box a gateway that corresponds to the FreeBSD box? Then how would DUN execute the ppp daemon? Another question: If I installed IPFilter on one box and an IDS on another, would I have to install NFS in order for the boxes to see each other? I would presume that file sharing would not be necessary at such a low-level, packet filtering layer. Yes, I am a UNIX newbie! If I wanted to manage the firewall and IDS logs on a separate box, would I configure the IDS to push or the management box to pull the log information? What about the installation of NFS in such a case? OK, just a few more questions: I usually remove certain /system32 files such as 'at' and burn them on a CDR to be used as needed. Can I accomplish the same feat in FreeBSD? For example, removing crontab from /usr/bin and it's source to CDR to be used as needed? Does FreeBSD have a /usr/xpg4 equivalent? There was also an article on SecurityFocus that mentioned something about cutting the transmit link (cable) for the IDS > IDS management box. Can someone direct me to some more information regarding this? Thank you in advance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message