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#! rnews 1540 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!rain.fr!usenet From: Tom Fischer <tfischer@panoramix.rain.fr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ppp question Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:40:31 +0000 Organization: panoramix InterNetNews test site Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31AD6D0F.41C67EA6@panoramix.rain.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: panoramix.rain.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Hello, I'm currently running FreeBSD 2.1.0R on a toshiba laptop with the pc-card patch from Tatsumi Hosokawa (driving a 3com 3589C ethernet card with no problems). I'm inexperienced with PPP, but I'm not letting this stop me from attempting to configure PPP on this system in the near future. I'm ordering a Hayes Optima 288 V.34 +fax modem card, which is supported by the PCMCIA driver. I have a question: I'd like to have things run so that my machine won't be making the call to connect to internet- rather I would like to have the router (or my office machine) call my phone number, have the FreeBSD toshiba system answer the call and then establish its ppp connection. Is this possible? As always, thanks in advance for any help... tom tfischer@rain.fr