Very Computer

Greetings,
we have a Internal LAN.  On it are several Win95 machines and a couple
HP's and Suns (older).  Am looking to provide internet access without
modems and phone lines to every win95 machine.  We are located in
a rural area where ISDN, 56K, 64K circuits are cost prohibitive.  Was
wondering if FreeBSD would allow multiple modems in a machine.  Then
Win95 machines would indicate its IP address for internet access.
FreeBSD would dial the local dailup number.  This would provide 5
concurrent users on the internet.  Is there a simplier, but still cost
effective solution?

any help greatly appreciated.

Darryl

You can use /usr/sbin/ppp with the -alias flag.  This will allow all
hosts to access the internet connection simultaneously.

- K.C.

Quote:> we have a Internal LAN.  On it are several Win95 machines and a couple
> HP's and Suns (older).  Am looking to provide internet access without
> modems and phone lines to every win95 machine.  We are located in
> a rural area where ISDN, 56K, 64K circuits are cost prohibitive.  Was
> wondering if FreeBSD would allow multiple modems in a machine.  Then
> Win95 machines would indicate its IP address for internet access.
> FreeBSD would dial the local dailup number.  This would provide 5
> concurrent users on the internet.  Is there a simplier, but still cost
> effective solution?

Quote:> Greetings,
> we have a Internal LAN.  On it are several Win95 machines and a couple
> HP's and Suns (older).  Am looking to provide internet access without
> modems and phone lines to every win95 machine.  We are located in
> a rural area where ISDN, 56K, 64K circuits are cost prohibitive.  Was
> wondering if FreeBSD would allow multiple modems in a machine.  Then

Ted

 :
 :


 >> Greetings,
 >> we have a Internal LAN.  On it are several Win95 machines and a couple
 >> HP's and Suns (older).  Am looking to provide internet access without
 >> modems and phone lines to every win95 machine.  We are located in
 >> a rural area where ISDN, 56K, 64K circuits are cost prohibitive.  Was
 >> wondering if FreeBSD would allow multiple modems in a machine.  Then
 :
 : Yes, look in the ports collection for mpd, the Multilink PPP daemon.

The latest ppp (http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html) does multilink too :-)

 : Ted
 :

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| for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do |
| echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."|
|done; done                                                           |
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It's in -current and will probably never make 2.2-stable as
it's likely to be classed as an enhancment rather than a bug
fix :-)

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+=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+
|for a in past present future; do                                     |
| for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do |
| echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."|
|done; done                                                           |
+=====================================================================+
http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9