* Stephen Walsh writes to Rowan_Crowe, on Saturday September 27 1997
   at 10:10:

 R>> What exactly are you wanting to do with the other machines? Will
 R>> they need direct internet access?

 R>> If you are only planning to use things like WWW, FTP, email etc
 R>> then you can set up the freebsd box as a proxy.

 SW> At the moment I want the freebsd box to be the one that calls' the isp
 SW> when required. I will be setting it up to so that it's a gateway/ip
 SW> masquerading for the os/2-win95 machines to have full access to the
 SW> net... I do plan on getting a 24/7 connect and I'l lbe setting up the
 SW> freebsd machine as a router etc...

The 24 hour connection will be easy, assuming you are allocated a subnet of
IPs rather than a single IP.

Have you got pppd working yet? I can show you a simple script that will
automatically dial your ISP and redial if the connection drops.

 SW>>> So what's the best way to go about all this. I'll also have to
 SW>>> figure out how to re-compile the kernal to remove all the
 SW>>> un-needed
 SW> [...]
 R>> If that works with no errors, then finally:

 R>> make install

 SW> Done all that now... The kernel's down from the 1.4mb generic kernel
 SW> to my custom one at 780K...

Mine is of a similar size.

 SW> Re: the cdrom...

 SW> It's the freebsd install disk's. Os/2 barfed on the install of the
 SW> port's/packages section (I was usding os/2 as a FTP server for the
 SW> freebsd cdrom) , so I got a lend of a scsi cdrom drive. I've compiled
 SW> the cdrom support into the kernel. Now it's just a matter of getting
 SW> it mounted. When I boot the machine, it's finding the devices attached
 SW> to the scsi card (sd0/cd0), but when the mounting of the rom happens
 SW> the system give's a error that the line with the cdrom in the fstab
 SW> file is 'fsbtab: /etc/fstab:5: Inappropriate file type or format'

Sorry, I have no idea, never used a CDROM with FreeBSD...

Cheers.


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