From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 00:14:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA19121 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (root@cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA19109 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.chalmers.com.au (carbon.cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.5]) by mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (8.7.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA01077; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:09:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33DD9737.24C613BA@chalmers.com.au> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:09:43 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Graichen CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cc me to please...Re: FreeBSD & ISDN & dynamic ip's X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707290608.IAA24025@farm.rz-berlin.mpg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Graichen wrote: > hello - i'm currently trying to set up a couple of FreeBSD machines > for a friend and have one (maybe little) problem - one of them should > be connected via ISDN to a provider using dynamic ip numbers - we have > > tested the ISDN card (german teles/s0) on another machine with a > static ip provider - and this worked fine - but how do i set ISDN up > to work with dynamic ip numbers ? > > here's the state so far: > > * kernel works fine so far using bisdn 0.97 (finds ISDN card and can > communicate with it - tested via static ip provider on a nother > machine) > > * to make dynamic ip's working it looks like the isdnpppd is the only > way - so i patched & compiled all the stuff from the > BISDN-ppp-FreeBSD2.2.tgz package (btw. we are using FreeBSD 2.2.2) > and tried some simple experiemnts to get it working - but due to the > > lack of documentation i did'nt get very far > > best would be is someone who has set up his FreeBSD machine to use > dynamic ip's to his provider can give me some hints on how to > configure all the stuff and how it works - i'm at the moment a bit > unclear of how all this works together (the ipi and the ppp interfaces > > - bisdnd and isdnpppd) > > if you need any further information please ask > > thanks in advance for any hint > > t > > -- > thomas graichen - graichen@rzpd.de graichen@OpenBSD.org > graichen@FreeBSD.org > > perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, > but when > there is no longer anything to take away antoine de > saint-exupery -- http://www.chalmers.com.au Books-New & Secondhand Support Whirled Peas. Agents for CIBTC. Associate of Amazon.com, and Partner Program with iBS. Books about China, books from China. Sheng huo jiu shi dou zheng Business Links in Dalian, and Beijing. Building the China Trade