From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 15:13:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD81837B720 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2KNDmn56400; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:13:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "bryden" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdzTYqri; Wed Mar 21 09:13:38 2001 Message-ID: <01d901c0b193$54bf35a0$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Tony Landells" Cc: "Tony Landells" , "Mike Meyer" , References: <200103202256.JAA18788@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: suroute ?? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:13:05 +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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > For example, where are the modems that people are dialling in to? Directly > on a FreeBSD box? In this particular case we use Cyclades multi-serial port adaptors & "common or garden variety" external serial port modems. Many of the permanents will be moving to some form of broadband shortly .... probably either Bigpond Direct ADSL (assuming they come up with intelligent pricing policies) or otherwise a BPA cable / PSTN hybrid so we get both public IPs & halfway respectable speeds. > Are you running a routing protocol of some sort? What is it? nothing > > How do you start PPP/SLIP for the dialins? Is it done from their login > scripts, or are you using something else? users login to either /usr/sbin/sliplogin, or /usr/sbin/pppd I intend to change most dialup accounts to /usr/local/bin/ppplogin if a straightforward & reliable solution to the routing issue can be devised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message