Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:19:36 -0500 (EST) From: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@acm.vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IPX or NetB%&# Message-ID: <199812222219.RAA00521@cowpie.acm.vt.edu>
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I setup dial in service today on a machine, tcp stuff works great. But now I am perplexed as I know very little about tcpip, I know even less about IPX or any other network protocol for that matter. I would like the 95 boxes that dial in to my machine, to be able to see the other 95 boxes on my local LAN and be able to use shared fax machines printers and all the other fun stuff in the office. I read all I could find on the freebsd.org web pages and assuming the following statements are correct, will you let me know what options I have to achieve the above mentioned. Now I don't want IPX or anything but the tcp/ip packets to get out of the office on our dial up connection. So I think that successfuly eliminates enabling IPX in the kernel, so now I'm down to pppd. pppd states in the man page for some reason that IPX works in the Linux version but (Ha Ha) not in yours. I also read somewhere that netcon.com might offer a solution but I couldn't get to thier pages as of this writing. Any sudgestions on reading material or other sources that might help me solve my problem would be greatly apreciated, just a point in the right direction. One other question, after toiling the morning away getting dial in to work I decided that the dialin user would just have pppd as it's shell, is this a bad idea security wise? --- Jared --jared@vt.edu BTW: I know I can't spell, but that's why we have spell checkers! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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