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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:28:54 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        "Rene' Van Horne" <vanhorne@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with the Internet
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909011524560.838-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <003f01bef424$6d6ccf00$b930d3c6@kcomp>

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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Rene' Van Horne wrote:

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> I just finished installing FreeBSD on my old comp. I had no trouble
> installing, and everything works fine, but I can't figure out how to
> do one thing: How do I connect to the internet using a dialup?
> Everything about unix seems geared toward a direct connection.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.

There's user level "ppp". It's got a huge man page, but thankfully
theres a example configuration file in /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf
that you could probably tweak slightly (the "PAPorCHAPpmdemand" section)
and use.

Cheers.
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