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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!news.hamburg.pop.de!lynet.Lynet.De!news From: uweg@lynet.de (Uwe Gruentjes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5, pppd and more ... Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:48:24 GMT Organization: GfS Luschendorf Lines: 51 Message-ID: <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.Lynet.De> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm204.lynet.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello everybody, this will get a little bit longwinded, but ... Our communications server is running FreeBSD 1.1.5 as its operating system. Due to time constraints an update is not possible in the near future. For more than one year now it's running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with very few reboots necessary. We are running our company BBS on it as well as doing some UUCP based mail and file transfers. MTA is smail 3.1, UUCP is Taylor 1.05. It's also acting as our primary DNS (locally). Our company network is mainly based on NetWare 3.12 with our NetWare server also running the SMTP gateway (Mercury 1.21). All mail with external destinations is correctly forwarded to our FreeBSD machine and sent via UUCP. Incoming mail is forwarded to our SMTP gateway and distributed locally. The same holds true for mail from and to other UNIX (SCO etc.) systems in our LAN. Everything works like it should. Since last week we are able to hook up our whole LAN to a local Internet providers host using PPP. Nevertheless must we continue to support UUCP due to customers demand. We intend to continue our use of the FreeBSD machine as our primary comm server. Our provider will act as our secondary DNS. Here are the parts I don't understand (yet): Suppose somebody wants to FTP somewhere. He uses Trumpet Winsock with the FreeBSD machine configured as gateway. FreeBSD looks up the destination on DNS. If it finds that the destination isn't local, it should dial up our providers host: - Does pppd (the one that comes with the system) work? - How do I initiate a communications link (dial on demand) when somebody requests an internet service? - How do I close the communications link when the service isn't needed any longer? The same questions apply to other networking related issues: - If I want to use NNTP, I have to initiate a PPP connection. How? - AFAIK now we have to use bsmtp for Internet mail, which is supported by smail. How do I get and deliver mail via a PPP link? If there is a document which explains all of this, please point me to its location. If somebody of you has resolved these issues, please share your knowledge with me. I'm grateful for every hint I can get. Best regards and TIA Uwe Gruentjes (uweg@lynet.de)