Re: Dial-In /Promise controller
In your email to me, Mike Patterson, you wrote:
>
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I
> now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95
> machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy!
>
> Now on to the questions....
>
> * I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original BIOS,
> but I'm thinking of grabbing the latest) and I would like to put a third
> or fourth drive on it. Does Linux have any problems recognizing these
> drives, or is there a patch out there for this? Or can I only use two
> of the Promise's drives?
It should see them by default.
> * Now that I have this nifty Linux box that I'm using as a central hub for
> my network, I was wondering if it would be possible to give it dial-in
> PPP capability. Optimally, I would like the person to be able to dial in
> with a Win95 box and hook into my own systems using IPX. possible? Maybe
> someone could point me to some documentation on this one.
While I'm not sure if the Debian pppd has ipx support compiled in,
take a look at my mgetty page (of course, ignore the building part since
the Debian version is built correctly) at http://www.buoy.com/isp. That
should get you started.
Tim
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