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From: mark@novell.business.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 20:25:32 GMT
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Can FreeBSD act as a SLIP router/gateway for a subnet?
I have a situation where there is a small remote LAN wanting tcp/ip access.
They have ethernet and run tcp/ip. Thats the ok part.
I can give them a phone number with a SLIP port. I can also assign them a
subnet and route from me onto that SLIP port.
If they setup a FreeBSD machine at their site, can it act as a router via SLIP?
{warning standard tcpip lingo used here}
They would define the FreeBSD as their default gateway and the box would route
onto the SLIP line. The slip line would have enough smarts to redial on loss
of carrier and pass login info via script.
Currently they are only interested at 14,400.
I am not sure of the extent of SLIP/PPP support in freebsd (dialin, dialout or
both)
The ideal situation would be the com ports look like standard network
interfaces and I simply use net config routing commands.