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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swiss.ans.net!jabba.cybernetics.net!usenet From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Status of SLIP and PPP in FreeBSD 2.0? Date: 7 Dec 1994 16:00:19 GMT Organization: http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3c4m6j$nsi@jabba.cybernetics.net> References: <3c2ves$so4@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au> Reply-To: james@hermes.cybernetics.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.cybernetics.net X-Newsreader: xvnews 2.3 Beta PL8, use only for testing please. On a related note, I'm curious as to if 2.0+ will be able to handle the PPP line discipline on a pseudo terminal. Here's the situation: I have a terminal server connected to a bank of modems + ethernet to the FreeBSD box in question (still running .5.1). I'd like to kermit telnet to the terminal server and talk to one of its modems, having it dial up the IP provider which starts a passive pppd for me. I'd then like to start a pppd talking through the kermit telnet session (hopefully transparent :). This would free up a dedicated line in the office (and make the previous owner of that line much nicer to me). Will this work? -- : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!