From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 21: 8:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FE114FB9 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27723 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:21:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "2000" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdz27720; Mon Aug 23 14:21:04 1999 Message-ID: <016601beed1d$d4eeb200$817e03cb@2000> From: "Doug Young" To: References: Subject: Re: Macintosh => FreeBSD => Internet Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:13:16 +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 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to do something like this, except with other unix & windows LAN boxes. I haven't been able to get anywhere with autodial, but seems I can establish connection manually so that will suffice for present ....... however what should be done instead of the " alias ispentry" so that the LAN boxes can browse ?? > > I am thinking about connecting a Macintosh (as client) to my PC (as > > server) running FreeBSD 3.1 via an ethernet link. > > > > Once this connection is up and running, would I then be able to open a > > dial-up PPP connection on the PC to my ISP and communicate (telnet, ftp, > > http) from both machines simultaneously over the single PPP connection? > > Yes. "ppp -auto -alias ispentry" is what you want. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message