From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 08:58:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA09263 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 08:58:45 -0700 Received: from phoenix.volant.org (volant.scruznet.com [205.179.79.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA09240 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 08:58:41 -0700 From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.volant.org [205.179.79.64]) by phoenix.volant.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA04944 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 08:57:44 -0700 Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01862; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:03:08 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:03:08 -0700 Message-Id: <9508301603.AA01862@asimov.volant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP questions Reply-To: lashley@netcom.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I've been using IIJPPP to connect to an ISP (Netcom) on an on-demand basis. Now, I'm setting up a full-time link through another (cheaper) provider (SCruz-Net). However, I'm keeping my original account, and would like to connect to it occasionally (primarily for the Clarinet newsgroups, which SCruz-Net doesn't carry.) Since Netcom only allows NNTP access to their PPP and SLIP based accounts, I'd like to continue to make my on-demand connections; but via telnet. This raises a couple of questions. 1. Will Netcom allow me to telnet into my PNC accound. (Consider this question rhetorical - I'll find out if I can get the others answered.) 2. Is there any documentation on the tun device? 3. Is there any documentation on setting up PPP-over-telnet or PPP-over-TCP, except for the four lines at the bottom of the ppp.conf.sample file? 4. (For the real wizards...) Is there any way I could just make the NNTP connection using my Netcom PPP address, but routing through my new connection? (This would enable me to avoid the PPP-over-telnet issue entirely...) Note that the Netcom PPP address is on a Netcom class C network... Thanks, -Pat My opinions are my own. For a small royalty, they can be yours as well... Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting 1098 Lynn, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 || 408.720.9039 || lashley@netcom.com