Running PPP on FreeBSD

First, let me warn you that I have not had an opportunity to test this on a machine. You can't do any harm to your system by trying this, as long as you leave the original *.sample files intact. If you have any questions about this procedure, or if it doesn't work for you, please contact me at jrotter@vt.edu. There is also a ppp man page on FreeBSD which may be quite helpful.
• Log in as root
• Change directories to /etc/ppp
• Make a copy of each file without the .sample at the end of its name.
• Edit /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
  • Enter the following text between the "default:" entry and the "simplesite:" entry:
    
    

    ######################################################################
    # - The number after "set phone" should be the phone number of your 
    #   Internet Service Provider.  (The one given is the Tech modem pool)
    # 
    # - After "set login" you should replace "jrotter" with your PID and
    #   replace "mypass" with your PID password.
    # 
    # - Everything else is configured for dynamic IPs.  If your ISP has
    #   given you a static IP, replace the first IP looking thing in the
    #   set ifaddr line with your IP.  For instance, if my ISP gave me
    #   the IP 128.173.123.456, then I would change that line to:
    #         set ifaddr 128.173.123.456 10.10.11.11/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
    # 
    # 
    ISP:
      set phone 2327000
      set login "TIMEOUT 5 login:-\\r-login: jrotter word: mypass"
      set timeout 120
      set ifaddr 10.10.10.10/0 10.10.11.11/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
      add 0 0 HISADDR
    

• Now, as root, run the command: ppp ISP
• This should connect you to your Internet Service Provider and establish a ppp connection. You can tell if you successfully connected by looking at the ppp prompt. If the prompt is in lower case, then you haven't - if the prompt is in upper case, then you have.
• Once you establish a connection, you can use your machine (from any other xterm or application) as if it were directly connected to the internet.
• To close the connection, type close at the ppp prompt.
• You can then quit ppp by typing q.

Last modified: Fri Mar 19 13:52:42 EST 1999