From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 17:33:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24412 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24405 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00423; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:32:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Walter.Oostendorp@ict.nl cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial in and dialout on one port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 Walter.Oostendorp@ict.nl wrote: > I'm planning to configure a 2.2.1 box for both dial in by mgetty and > dialout on demand by ppp. I can't find out if this is possible using the > same port and modem for both. I believe ppp will drop the appropriate lockfiles when it starts, so it should be able to run at the same time. Obviously, DON'T do this when someone is on by the modem -- apparently ppp will _disconnect_ them to start the dial! I'd recommend not running ppp in -auto mode if you'll be expecting callers or else they are going to be in for some fun surprises. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo