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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp through telnet. Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 11:29:00 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <32A01A7C.B13@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bbdeca$cab46280$1d9f09ce@win95.soncom.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) 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------------------> > > 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? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |