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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP connection overi serial line Date: 23 Mar 1997 21:13:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5h46em$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5gtcck$r0i@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37641 dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr David Henshaw) wrote: > So what I need to do is establish a TCP/IP link between the Win 95 > box and the FreeBSD box. Initially I'd like to do this over a > serial link... > Can I simply run getty on a serial port and rather than spawn (is > that correct ?) a login process run the ppp daemon on the serial > line ? That's the usual way. If your machine is reachable from outside (modem, Internet), you should however insist on PAP or CHAP authentication for that link. > Am I right in assuming the ppp daemon can dynamically assign an IP > address to the Win 95 box ? It can assign an address, yes. What do you imagine with `dynamically'? No, it doesn't invent IP addresses itself yet. :-) However, i have written shellscript wrappers that for example pick an IP address based on the tty line of the caller (for a modem pool). Also, with PAP or CHAP, you can configure different IP addresses for each caller. (I just noticed that it can also handle an options.<tty> file, so i wouldn't even have needed the shellscript wrapper.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)