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From: kestas@community.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help on setup manuals needed
Date: 3 Sep 1995 08:36:30 -0700
Organization: Access InfoSystems
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Reply-To: kestas%lith.UUCP@solano.community.net
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Hi:
I have installed Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.0.5R2 on a PC, and need
guidance to set this machine up as both a mail-server and terminal server
for another PC. What I want to do is to replace a Xenix system that gets
UUCP mail from my ISP and also be able to connect through the BSD's modem
to my ISP with an O/S2 WARP PC.
The connection between WARP & BSD machines will be through a direct
serial-serial cable (PPP?). I'd like the connection from the BSD machine
to be PPP also so that I can read news on my ISP's server while recieving
mail on the BSD box and ftp'ing from the WARP PC. I want the BSD box to
dial out when either cron says to get mail or the WARP PC looks for an
outside site. Eventually several WARP PC's will hang off an ethernet
connected to the BSD box.
Confusing?
WARP<--->BSD<--->ISP
ftp. mail news
I can read the man pages for each individual command, but need
an overview of what needs to be done and where to start. BSD is
sufficiently different from Xenix that I am lost, and the networking
stuff is new to me. I will have to set up the BSD machine with dynamic
IP addresses, so what address do I give the WARP box?
Any overviews, user's guide or manuals in addition to the man
pages would be appreciated. Any mail I get will be summarised and posted
to the group. Thank you.
Kestas
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Regards, Kestas
Kestutis Sliupas x (510) 231-1540 (work voice)
kestas%lith.uucp@solano.community.net x (510) 231-1285 (work FAX) USA CA