Home Networking With HALNet ADSL

     Please follow the FreeBSD router instructions and add/remove/replace ONLY what's shown below.

In the rc.conf you would put the following instead of natd_??? and don't specify a WAN interface (ppp will do that for you): ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_mode="auto"
ppp_nat="YES"
ppp_user="root"
ppp_profile="hal"

You also need to configure PPP. As root do the following: cd /etc/ppp
cp ppp.conf ppp.conf.sample      #This will backup the sample that it comes with.

Save this ppp.conf to your /etc/ppp directory.
Edit the file and change ONLY the following to fit your needs. It will break at the slightest typeo, so be careful not to change anything else unless you know what you're doing.
set device /dev/cuaa0      #This is your modem. cuaa0=COM1 cuaa1=COM2 etc.
set phone *70,7136259909      #The *70, is for turning off Call Waiting. If you don't have it then DON'T us it.
set timeout 300      #This is the idle disconnect in miliseconds (this is 5 minutes, ie. 5*60=300)
set redial 3 10      #Redial attempts. These should be fine for most people.
set authname USERNAME      #Do I need to explain these last two?
set authkey PASSWORD

Continue on with Section 3 of the FreeBSD router instructions.

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