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From: "Patrick Sonnek" <psonnek@soncom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp through telnet.
Date: 30 Nov 1996 20:05:10 GMT
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Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote in article
<32A01A7C.B13@www.play-hookey.com>...
> Patrick Sonnek wrote:
> >
> > I have a dumb question.
> >
> > is it possible for a user to logon on to a shell account from a PC,
telnet
> > from that machine to my machine, and then to bring up ppp?
> >
> > i.e.
> > 168.9.49.1 206.9.159.17
> > ____ phone line ________ the net ________
> > | PC |--------------------------| host |===============| ME |
> > |____| |_______| |_______|
> > 206.9.159.20 <-----------------------------PPP------------------>
Dorm Room in College host (no PPP) My host
Illinois in Illinois In Minnesota
> >
> > will this work?, and how could I do it.
>
> You definitely have me confused on this one. If you already have a link
> to your machine, why do you need another one?
>
> Even assuming the need, to have your home machine dial up your (I
> assume) local machine while your local machine is logged into an ISP,
> you would need a second phone line and a second modem in your local
> machine, so you could complete the PPP connection before logging off the
> ISP.
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler all around to let your home machine accept
> incoming PPP access, and then dial it up directly?
See the location's I've added above. The link isn't for me, it's for one
of my customers,
who is going to college in Illinois next quarter, to get ppp access to my
machine without
having to make a long distance phone call. I asked them if they couldn't
do everything from
the college computer, but all they have access to there, is a shell
account.
Personally, I don't think what I'm asking can be done, but I thought I
would run it past
you experts.