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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.erols.com!frey.play-hookey.com!root From: Ken Bigelow <root@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: In need of some stuff... Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:29:10 +0000 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 44 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960817081951.236A-100000@frey.play-hookey.com> References: <4uqdc4$bal@news.hemi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: root@frey.play-hookey.com In-Reply-To: <4uqdc4$bal@news.hemi.com> I can't help you with questions 1 and 3, so I waited to see if someone else could. Connecting to a dedicated port on an ISP is not a big problem ... read the Handbook on PPP connections and the man page on pppd. The most important file you'll deal with is /etc/ppp/options. You may also want to borrow a couple of ideas from the /etc/ppp/*.sample files provided for iijppp. My site does it this way, and it works fine. I start the process with a single line in /etc/rc.local : pppd /dev/cuaa1 115200 Everything else can be defined in the options file. Incidentally, your connection will simply be a PPP or SLIP connection. If your ISP allows you a shell account, you simply telnet to it. Most of what you'll do is from your own computer; that's why you have the PPP connection in the first place. Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? | On 13 Aug 1996, Ralph Forsythe wrote: > I am looking for the 6.1 X libs for XFree86 3.12, first of all, so if > anyone knows how to go about acquiring those, I would appreciate the > input. Second, I need to know how to get FreeBSD to talk to a dedicated > internet connection on COM2, which will be 57600bps, N-8-1. This > connection can switch between shell and PPP as well. Third, I am > wondering if anyone knows of good books to go get that would serve as a > reference in programming Xwindows. I would also like books on Xfree if > anyone knows of any... > > Thanks! > > - Ralph Forsythe > ralph@contact-paging.com > > >