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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: vincent@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Dial back PPP on FreeBSD Date: 29 Jul 1995 20:32:56 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3vduso$3qo@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucthpx.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, Is it possible to have a dial-back PPP link on a FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine? i.e: Dial into a machine, have it disconnect and dial you back. I see 2 options here: 1) Have a pppd handle the initial connection, authentication and dial-back - I cannot find any option to do this - if it exists. 'ppp -direct' doesn't help either, because it only works on stdio. 2) Have getty handle the initial login, then start a process in the background that logs off (closing the connection) and then starts ppp to make a connection to a pre-configured host. Only problem is that getty is in the way. Some machines (e.g: HPUX) have 'uugetty' which allows getty to share the line with dial-out programs if the line is not in use - is there something similar for FreeBSD? To get around the getty problem in (2), I could have the script modify the /etc/ttys and HUP init, but that gets messy. Any ideas? Thanks -Russell