Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:34:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to ppp with a TA with an rj45 not a serial connection to my machine??? Message-ID: <20010911212125.L56128-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010912005057.25473.qmail@web12008.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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