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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> 	One of my friends is thinking about starting a FreeBSD based ISP
> with pops in several different locations.  What would be needed besides
> modems and the FreeBSD machine to provide slip/ppp services in addition to
> shell access?  I noticed that Whole Earth Network (http://www.wenet.net)
> seems to be using BSDI machines since when you call, it will just show the
> standard unix login prompt and you had to add -ppp to do ppp.  Is FreeBSD
> capable of acting as a terminal server?  Thanks for any advice anyone
> could offer.

Certainly can.  Callers can either use a getty login or PPP PAP - getty 
detects PPP calls and starts pppd.  See 
ftp.hilink.com.au:/pub/FreeBSD/ts-kit215.tgz

Danny