At 7:26 am 6/3/96, russ wrote:
>A comment offered purely in a constructive sense, and without detracting
>from my admiration of the team who have put so much effort in: possibly
>the reason the project isn't getting the widespread fame it truly
>deserves is the modest documentation that's available.  I suspect that
>given just a few more HOW-TOs, and a wider distribution of them, MacBSD
>could quickly find itself on the verge of major take-up.  [Yes, I'm
>willing to add another stone to the cairn!  Any suggestions?]  I wonder
>how much could be 'borrowed' (with appropriate credit, of course!) from
>the general NetBSD and Linux HOW-TOs.

Actually, you're right.  Although part of the problem is not so much lack
of documentation as lack of organisation - there's a lot out there, but it
is scattered over several web sites....

>
>On pppd: I've put together a basic 'up' script using the man pages and
>one or two hints gleaned from the Linux NET-2 HOWTO.  I've been taking
>pppd down rather inelegantly, by prodding it manually with 'kill -INT'.
>The list archives contain mention of some example ppp-up and ppp-down
>scripts.  I'd appreciate a pointer to them or a copy by email.  Thanks!
>I don't suppose there's any chance of dial-on-demand working, is there?

I think that a plain kill (i.e. kill -TERM) is quite a good way to do it,
actually.  I use that (except I have a script which saves the pid at ip-up
time)  Someone else is working on PPP how-tos.  When they have got it done,
I will mail in my additions, which included two separate PPP setups on one
machine.

>Russ
>
>[in Edinburgh, Scotland]

        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^   Brrr... it must be cold up there.  It's bad enough
in London...

Cheers,

Jules


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