From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 15:27: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3B415927 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 15:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01480; Wed, 12 May 1999 15:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Cambria, Mike" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: dial-in pppd & gettytab In-Reply-To: <75ADD7496F0BD211ADC000104B8846CF563036@rerun.lucentctc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, Cambria, Mike wrote: > > Now that the cable-modem is running, I want to set my serial line up for > dial-in pppd (kernel). I'm already able to dial in for shell access. > > Knowing I'd do this someday, I've saved away several dial-in pppd messages > on this list as well as searched the archive. Numerous references are made > to pp= in gettytab. > > The man page for gettytab (2.2.6-Release) states that 'pp' isn't used. The > Handbook also makes no reference to using pp for dial up pppd. Should I > bother trying it? I suggest upgrading to 2.2.8 to take advantage of this feature. Otherwise, you'll have to run mgetty. > BTW, I need to user pppd for reasons I will not get into. That's an oxymoron. (User) ppp or (kernel) pppd? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message