Setting
Up FreeBSD 3.x and Later Connection
DISCLAIMER
- Although Niagara Internet offers up the following
information for assisting you in setting up a FreeBSD
dial-up computer to work with Niagara Internet, we
do not offer additional direct support for FreeBSD.
Niagara Internet cannot
guarantee that the following scripts will work on
your machine nor provide technical support in trouble-shooting
messages reported to your error-logs. We recommend,
if you have difficulties with your FreeBSD configuration,
you post any additional questions to the appropriate
mailing lists and USENET newsgroups.
As of Friday,
February 15, 2002, the following scripts are successfully
being used by one of Niagara Internet's members. He has graciously
donated his script file to our information base for
the membership's use.
Here is
the information for configuring PPP for FreeBSD to
connect with Niagara Internet's 56K digital modems.
Purpose
/ location/filename
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Dialer & PPP script = /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
The file
/etc/rc.conf must additionally contain
the following for the networking system to operate:
# NEEDED FOR DIAL-UP ACCESS
ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_mode="ddial"
ppp_nat="YES"
ppp_profile="Niagara Internet"
ppp_user="root"
