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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dialing Up a box?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 13:07:27 +0200
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Halaster <halastr@usr1.primenet.com> wrote:
>It's me again. I would like to be able to call my home computer from work
>and drop to a shell. Basically, the equivalent to telneting directly to
>the home machine but by calling it through the modem. Is there a daemon
>I need to install inorder for it to monitor the modem? Maybe a nice
>program... not a bbs though (unless it lets you drop to a shell).
The daemon is called ``getty'' and needs to be enabled in /etc/ttys.
Refer to the man pages ttys(5) and gettytab(5) for explanations. Make
sure your modem auto-answers incoming calls (ats0=1&w) and is config-
ured to the same DTE speed as the getty is using, since getty waits
until it sees the carrier from the modem (low->high transition of the
DCD line).
If you need to talk to the modem directly (e.g. to adjust the S0
register setting or the DTE speed), programs like ``kermit'' are the
easiest way, though you can also use ``cu'' (but you need more
tweaking to several config files then).
Use the dialout device (/dev/cua00 or /dev/cuaa0) to speak with the
modem, and the dialin device (/dev/tty00 or /dev/ttyd0) to run your
getty on.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)