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From: mi@ziplink.net (Misha Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set up dynamic ip ppp or slip connection?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 02:34:46 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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To: Tao Jiang <jcjc+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Honorable Tao Jiang
wrote on 04 Sep (in article <Mm=Dz8u00YUu1F7Gk0@andrew.cmu.edu>):
=Hi, can some one tell me step by step how I can set up my
=freebsd 2.2 system to connect to my school which assign
=dynamic ip address to me?
Read the pppd's man page' and list all your options in /etc/ppp/options .
The most important, is the `connect'-line. Here is mine:
connect "chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' 'MODEMS INI-STRING' OK ATDTPHONENUMBER ogin: 'MY LOGIN' assword: 'MY PASSWORD'"
chat's man page will explain you the details of the line -- you define
after which of modem's responses to abort, and then give pairs of strings
expected from the modem and those, provided in response. So, modem's ini-
-string goes as a response to nothing ('') -- immediately. Then, the
modem shoud say 'OK'. Then you ask it to dial the number. It will return
all the text coming from the dialed host, but I am only interested in the
word 'login:' (or 'ogin:' -- my Internet provider changes it 'Login:'
sometimes). So, `chat' will give my login-name. And so on...
Do not forget to put the `defaultroute' line in the file. It is also
advisable to put the device name (/dev/cuaa0, for example) into the file,
so that you do not have to provide it on the command line every time.
Make sure the file is not public readable, or someone on your machine
may get your password.
Make sure, your kernel has at least one ppp-device built in. Look at
the /sys/i386/conf/LINT for details.
When everything is ready, type `pppd', and enjoy your modem's sounds.
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"