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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp through telnet.
Date: 3 Dec 1996 00:08:37 -0000
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In article <01bbdeca$cab46280$1d9f09ce@win95.soncom.com>,
"Patrick Sonnek" <psonnek@soncom.com> writes:
: 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.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but my home machine runs
"ppp -auto". I can dial into it and ping my ISP. The ping finds
the modem (that I'm dialed into) in use, and delays. When I drop
the line, ppp makes a connection to my ISP. Given 'net connectivity,
I can then connect to my home machine via the 'net.
It could be used to do a "call back" too - but I believe the hylafax
stuff does that a bit more elegantly (although I've never looked at
this feature).
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.