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From: Michel Joly de Lotbiniere <mjdl@interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring no network
Date: 19 Sep 1995 18:10:35 GMT
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To: gherrity@io.nosc.mil
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gherrity@io.nosc.mil (Mike Gherrity) wrote:
>
>I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my pc at home. I have no network at home:
>No network card, no NFS. During the installation process, I didn't come
>across anything that asked me for a machine name, so I went to the
>"Network Services Menu" (even though I have no network), and came across
>a "Network Configuration" menu which asked me for a machine name. I
>dutifully put in the name 'hal'. However, there were places for Domain,
>Gateway, IP address, ... which I left blank since I have no network (in
>another attempt at installation I used hal.mjg.org, but that didn't seem
>to have any different results).
>[snip-snip]
I am not TCP/IP educated, and I did more or less the same as you the first
time, except that I copied the nameserver/gateway/etc. info my
IP provider gave into the form; result: lots of misconfiguration errors on
boot-up, and so on...
SO WHAT I SAY HERE IS PROBABLY WRONG!!!
However, I now have a configuration that works for a statically assigned
IP number at my end of a PPP link, while the IP provider's gateway router
changes on every connection.
The solution is simple: 1) edit /etc/sysconfig so that named does not
start, routed starts with the -s option, e.g.
my static IP # is 198.53.146.76
my assigned gateway for PPP is 198.53.145.4 (which it never actually is)
my nameserver is 198.53.145.2
which results in
######################### Start Of Netconfig Section #######################
# Set to the name of your host - this is pretty important!
hostname=lotbiniere.interlog.com
# Set to the NIS domainname of your host, or NO if none
defaultdomainname=NO
#
# Some broken implementations can't handle the RFC 1323 and RFC 1644
# TCP options. If TCP connections randomly hang, try disabling this,
# and bug the vendor of the losing equipment.
#
tcp_extensions=YES
#
# Set to the list of network devices on this host. You must have an
# ifconfig_${network_interface} line for each interface listed here.
# for example:
#
# network_interfaces="ed0 sl0 lo0"
# ifconfig_ed0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00"
# ifconfig_sl0="inet 10.0.1.0 netmask 0xffffff00"
#
network_interfaces="lo0 tun0"
#network_interfaces="lo0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
ifconfig_tun0="inet lotbiniere.interlog.com 198.53.145.4 netmask 0xffffff00"
#
# Set to the list of route add lines for this host. You must have a
# route_${static_routes} line for each static route listed here.
#
static_routes="loopback"
#route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
# Set to the host you'd like set as your default router, or NO for none.
defaultrouter=NO
# These are the flags you'd like to start the routing daemon with
routedflags=-s
# timed flags, or NO if you don't want to start the time daemon
timedflags=NO
# xntpd flags, or NO if you don't want to start the xntpd daemon
xntpdflags="NO"
# this is inoperative unless xntpd is enabled; NO to disable
tickadjflags="-Aq"
# Set to the site you'd like to syncronize your clock from (gatekeeper.dec.com,
# for example) or NO for no such site.
ntpdate="NO"
# Set to YES if you want to run rwhod
rwhod=NO
# Default sendmail flags. -bd is pretty mandatory, -q<n>m sets the queue scan
# time in minutes. If set to NO, don't start sendmail at all.
sendmail_flags="-bd"
# Set to appropriate flags if you want to use AMD
amdflags="NO"
# Set to YES if this machine will be an NFS client
nfs_client=NO
# Set to YES if this machine will be an NFS server
nfs_server=NO
# Set to appropriate flags if you want to start NIS for a client
nis_clientflags="NO"
# Set to appropriate flags if you want to start NIS for a server
nis_serverflags="NO"
# Set to appropriate flags for yppasswdd, if you wish to run it.
# Typical flags might be "-m /var/yp/master.passwd -s -f"
yppasswddflags="NO"
# Set to appropriate flags for named, if you have a full-time
# connection to the Internet.
# For most hosts, flags should be "-b /etc/namedb/named.boot"
namedflags="NO"
# Set to YES if you want to run the X-10 power controller daemon
xtend=NO
# Set to YES if you want kernel crashdumps to be saved for debugging
savecore=NO
# Set to YES if you want to run Kerberos authentication
kerberos_server=NO
# Set to YES if you want to run gated
gated=NO
############################
I had to call my machine exactly what the CNAME records of
my IP provider calls my machine, i.e. host == lotbiniere
domain == interlog.com
then make sure /etc/host.config reads
hosts
bind
and /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
198.53.146.76 lotbiniere.interlog.com lotbiniere
and /etc/resolv.conf
domain interlog.com
nameserver 198.53.145.2
and finally the .ppp.conf in my home directory:
# all connections
default:
set device /dev/cuaa1
set speed 34800
# disable lqr
# deny lqr
set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER ABORT NO\\sDIAL\\sTONE ABORT
NO\\sANSWER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATZ OK-AT-OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 30 CONNECT"
interlog:
set phone xxxxxxxx
set login "TIMEOUT 5 login:-\\r-login: etc.
set timeout 600
and .ppp.linkup:
198.53.146.76:
add 0 0 HISADDR
And that's all there is to it, at least until I run into the
inevitable problems...
Happy Unix-ing!
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Michel Joly de Lotbiniere
mjdl@interlog.com
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