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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Internet X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <DsFKny.M72@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <31a3ad9b.4171695@news.belin.qc.ca> <4oj8nu$5r3@news.zipnet.net> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:35:58 GMT Lines: 44 Mikhail Teterin (mi@aldan.algebra.com) wrote: : Honorable Daniel Labelle : wrote on 23 May (in article <31a3ad9b.4171695@news.belin.qc.ca>): : =Can anybody tell me if i can go to internet without a Text Account... : No. You need a Win95, and MicroSoft certified computer literacy class. : Oops. Sorry, did not mean to be rude. But, as an old wisdom says, to : ask a auestion, you need to know half of the answer... : I suppose, you mean what ISPs Namely, you need PPP (or SLIP) : call "Text only account" this feature. That's it. Nothing : days. No, you do not need it to else. Then, when your machine : make your computer an internet dials your ISP, it will become : host. What you need for that, smth like ip32-43.qc.ca (you'll : is what they call "Graphics" even be able to telnet to it : (or even "Full graphics") account. from the outside!). Probably not true. Assuming that "Text Account" is a UNIX shell, you can (tech details omitted): 1. Put a SLIRP executable on an ISP host. 2. Connect via modem from your FreeBSD home box to the ISP 3. Launch SLIRP on ISP 4. Do slattach on FreeBSD and your'e Ok :-) I don't remember where the SLIRP lives, but FreeBSD CD has it and ftp.freebsd.org has it, in ports collection. : -mi : -- : "Windows for dummies" -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.