From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 21:07:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA16463 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA16445 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24448; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:06:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA09499; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608060406.VAA09499@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: newbie PPP and dail-in question To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: durang@u.washington.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Annelise Anderson at "Aug 5, 96 04:40:32 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Annelise Anderson: > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > > > I've been looking around for PPP manpages, webpages, chapters in books, > > etc., but one thing still eludes me in a big way: > > [[ ... ]] > Annelise > > > [[ ... ]] Wouldn't SLiRP be good here? Could someone who wanted a pseudo-SLIP link have SLiRP on the remote machine, and another instantiation running locally and have IP-like connectivity?? Anybody out there a SLIP/SLiRP guru? I have used the TIA emulator on my local BBS with SLIP on my old 386/SVR4 and it was just like having a dedicated SLIP dial-up. gary <><> Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. -- Edward Abbey