From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 20:51:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA01420 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 20:51:16 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA01414 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 20:51:15 -0700 From: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.15/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA174357453; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 20:50:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199504040350.AA174357453@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA19146; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:50:36 +1000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router,firewall machine and terminal server To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 13:50:34 EST Cc: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <2106.796966986@palmer.demon.co.uk>; from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 04, 95 4:43 am X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > for 3), I have no idea how I can turn a FreeBSD box into a terminal > > server at all. > > What sort of terminals? Dial in or hard wired? For hard wired terminals > it's relatively easy, you just set up /etc/ttys with the relevant info. > Dial-in is a bit more difficult, and what you want depends on whether you > want simple login access or to provide slip/ppp access. > > Hope this helps some. > > Gary > Urrr, yes I only want to serve dial-in session, and no I will no provide any slip/ppp access over it. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks again.