From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 23:52:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE45637B491 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1C7pjE12618; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:51:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <004801c094c8$bb6c9780$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Ben Weaver" , "parthasarathi biswas" Cc: References: <20010212064250.17448.qmail@web803.mail.yahoo.com> <20010212010849.B4183@tranquility.net> Subject: Re: ISP setup Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:52:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whilst my impression of the typical man page is a recipe for total confusion, in this case I found man ppp had a very good explanation of basic dialin server setup ...mind you it was largely done by none other than the great Brian Somers. There are three different setups discussed ..... example 1 tends to be fiddly .... I've had it working but example 2 is infinitely more straightforward & reliable. example 2 works fine as long as EVERY step is followed to the letter (including the modem config so it answers on first or second ring tone). Automatic login from unix works with no major problems, Win9x / WinME requires a login script which I can supply if anyone needs it, & Win2000 is quite fiddly. I never could get example 3 to work ... it sounds good on paper but the mgetty AutoPPP function doesn't apparently work unless mgetty is compiled from source, and the makefile instructions are easily the worst in existence. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Weaver" To: "parthasarathi biswas" Cc: Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:08 PM Subject: Re: ISP setup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message