Gathering Needed Information
After you have signed up with an ISP, you will need to get several pieces of information:
The communications port that your modem is on. If you know the DOS com port, the following FreeBSD devices correspond to the DOS com ports: COM1: cuaa0, COM2: cuaa1, COM3: cuaa2, COM4: cuaa3.
The IP addresses of your ISP's DNS servers. These are used to resolve domain names to numerical IP addresses.
Your ISP's dial-up phone number.
Your user name and password.
The type of authentication that your ISP uses. This should be either a standard shell login, PAP (password authentication protocol), or CHAP (challenge handshake protocol). More on the different authentication protocols will be covered later in the chapter.
Whether you have ...
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