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* Reword advice given in the first person.

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* Add missing words to form better sentences.
* Suggest that users simply set the router and router_flags variables
  in /etc/rc.conf, rather than the previous instructions to hack
  /etc/netstart.
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Murray Stokely 2001-09-07 06:43:50 +00:00
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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml,v 1.56 2001/09/04 14:54:05 kuriyama Exp $
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml,v 1.57 2001/09/04 15:14:21 brian Exp $
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<chapter id="ppp-and-slip">
@ -2001,11 +2001,13 @@ ppp_profile="name_of_service_provider"</programlisting>
do something much fancier.</para>
<para>First, determine which serial port your modem is connected to.
I have a symbolic link to <filename>/dev/modem</filename> from
<filename>/dev/cuaa1</filename>, and only use the modem name in
my configuration files. It can become quite cumbersome when you
Many people setup a symbolic link, such as
<devicename>/dev/modem</devicename>, to point to the real device name,
<devicename>/dev/cuaaN</devicename>. This allows you to
abstract the actual device name should you ever need to move
the modem to a different port. It can become quite cumbersome when you
need to fix a bunch of files in <filename>/etc</filename> and
<filename>.kermrc</filename>'s all over the system!</para>
<filename>.kermrc</filename> files all over the system!</para>
<note>
<para><filename>/dev/cuaa0</filename> is
@ -2204,10 +2206,9 @@ output ***\x0d, echo \x0aCONNECTED\x0a</programlisting>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Not using <option>-c</option> or <option>-a</option> in
<command>slattach</command> (I have no idea why this
can be fatal, but adding
this flag solved the problem for at least one
person).</para>
<command>slattach</command> (This shouldn't be fatal,
but some users have reported that this solves their
problems.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@ -2700,7 +2701,7 @@ Shelmerg dc-slip sl-helmerg 0xfffffc00 autocomp</programlisting
<para>Adding static routes to your nearest default routers can
be troublesome (or impossible, if you do not have authority to
do so...). If you have a multiple-router network in your
organization, some routers, such as Cisco and Proteon, may
organization, some routers, such as those made by Cisco and Proteon, may
not only need to be configured with the static route to the
SLIP subnet, but also need to be told which static routes to
tell other routers about, so some expertise and
@ -2788,15 +2789,16 @@ import proto rip interface ed {
net mask in the <literal>proto direct</literal> clause as
well).</para>
<para>When you get <command>gated</command> built and installed
and create a configuration file for it, you will need to run
<command>gated</command> in place of <command>routed</command>
on your FreeBSD system; change the
<filename>routed/gated</filename> startup parameters in
<filename>/etc/netstart</filename> as appropriate for your
system. Please see the manual page for
<command>gated</command> for information on
<command>gated</command>'s command-line parameters.</para>
<para>Once you have installed and configured
<command>gated</command> on your system, you will need to
tell the FreeBSD startup scripts to run
<command>gated</command> in place of
<command>routed</command>. The easiest way to accomplish
this is to set the <varname>router</varname> and
<varname>router_flags</varname> variables in
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>. Please see the manual
page for <command>gated</command> for information on
command-line parameters.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>