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From: "Patrick Sonnek" <psonnek@soncom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ppp through telnet.
Date: 30 Nov 1996 14:33:21 GMT
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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------------------>


will this work?, and how could I do it.