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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP connection with call-back
Date: 23 May 1997 10:04:02 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5m268d$5bi$1@sanson.dit.upm.es>,
	jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) writes:
> Hello. I want to make a PPP connection between two sites using call-back
> for better security, so that I can only access the remote site from a
> set of specified telephone numbers.
> 
> Has anybody used any of the FreeBSD packages to do that?

It's possible in theory with ppp, but I've never tried it.
If you do get it to work, an update to the handbook would be
great (nudge nudge:).

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !