From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 18:29:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2546C37B408 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com ([24.141.119.162]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010912012927.GDDF18761.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:29:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8C1Yxb56242; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:35:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:34:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Cc: Subject: Re: how to ppp with a TA with an rj45 not a serial connection to my machine??? In-Reply-To: <20010912005057.25473.qmail@web12008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010911212125.L56128-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Keith Spencer wrote: > Hi all, > I am ok with terminal adapters with serial > connections, but this school has got itself a TA that > connects via cat 5 to a network card in the computer. > Hmmmm. so is that pppoe??? or what? > do I simply do in the ppp.conf > default: > set device fxp0 or something?? > > or do I have to do deeper spookier stuff. > At the moment an NT machine handles the dialing and it > uses something called DIVA miniwan > The Freebsd machine will now do the dialing but it has > to be easier than the dopey set up in NT... > Help pleez guys. I'd reaaly appreciate it > Keith spencer Hi Keith, If I'm understanding your setup correctly, there isn't an ISDN card in either the NT box or the FreeBSD box, thus the TA? If that's the case, think of the TA as a regular modem and setup ppp as usual. This link should be helpful: href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/isdn.html HTH, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message