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From: jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple simultaneous logins over 1 phone line
Date: 30 Sep 1995 18:10:44 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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Right now I have my wife's PC set up as a terminal, hooked up to my
FreeBSD box through a serial port. She has an account on my box. I
am running SLIP to dial in to my service provider, and she can log in
from her PC and just type "telnet thishost.thatdomain" and ppp
automatically dials the phone and *presto*, she's on the network.
So yes, slip/ppp works just fine for this sort of thing.
In article <44jsbk$bfe@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
saj@prairienet.org (Thomas D. Eudaly) writes:
>Is it possible, using freebsd and any additional hardware/software,
>to use a freebsd box as a sort of server that would enable multiple
>simultaneous logins, from terminals connected to it, to an internet
>service provider? Would a slip/ppp connection from the freebsd box
>to the ISP be required? Or would it have to be a network connection?
>Any help, including bibliographic suggestions, would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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