Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP FAQ Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961205120509.8339R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <87g21l3u1q.fsf@luddite.org>
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Forwarded to doc@freebsd.org, the documentation discussion list On 5 Dec 1996, Jay Sachs wrote: > Enough people have said this is needed. I agree. I've had more than > enough exchanges answering questions on iijppp configuration. > > I hereby volunteer to coordinate a (re)write of a FAQ for setting up > user PPP (i.e. iijppp) under FreeBSD. If no one has any objections, > that is. Please do! > (Hey, if Nick Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>, who contributed the > handbook entry, wants the job, he can have it. Just speak up). It would be nice if we could concentrate on updating the Handbook instead of making a separate doc, but I'm game for anything :) > - Any special things you had to do to get iijppp running properly for you Only modifying /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample to ppp.conf and making changes to work with my provider. I dial manually with an automatic login sequence. (Be sure to mention the 'set debug' options, they help a lot when fixing login scripts!) > I'm looking for submissions not only from experience ppp-ers, but also > those of you just starting to set up ppp As soon as I get info I'll contribute a section to getting Metricom's Ricochet wireless modem set up with ppp. > I think the FAQ should provide info for two separate classes of uses: > one, where ppp is the only tcpip interface used, and the other when > ppp is used in conjunction with lan interfaces. My feeling is that > there a different/additional issues that crop up when using ppp > concurrently with e.g. an ethernet to e.g provide 'net access for a > lan without official IP addresses. Quite. This is big question #2 and was the subject of a quest of mine a while ago. I might eek out enough time over winter break to get a configuration like this working. I know the tools needed now (ie, IPFilter &/or NAT) and think I could pull it off. > [My point here is that the FAQ should have a separate section for > these issues, not that it shouldn't cover them] Works. Keep us posted on progress. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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