From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 5: 8:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B701D152D9 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990825121020.GXQA3442178.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:10:20 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Young" Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:05:46 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Where to get assistance ?? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <00c601beeea1$486868a0$857e03cb@jdy> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990825121020.GXQA3442178.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Aug 99, at 12:26, Young wrote: > I can dial up manually, using "ppp", "term", ATDT, but can't > understand how to even begin preparing a chat script, so any sort of > automatic dialling is out of the question for the immediate future. There is a sample script at http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/ppp.htm and links to the various ppp resources. > I have a local hosts file setup on the gateway box, and can successfully > ping other boxes on the LAN by either name or IP address. This is a very good start. > Another area of concern is the ppp.conf file ...... I'm 99% confused about > most of it .... reading the PPP MAN only makes me more confused every time > I read it. If anyone has a dialup internet account and the type of login > that prompts for login & password, I'd really appreciate a copy of their > ppp.conf file as it might be a lot more help than the documentation has > been. Join the club . I don't use dial up, but see the above URL. Also, http://www.freebsdzine.org -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message