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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: Ken Fallot <fallot@ecc.nyseg.com>
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Subject: Re: dial-up , PPP, SLIP or other REMOTE X 
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On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Ken Fallot wrote:

>   help
>   I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on P90 with perm. connection to internet at work.
> 
>   I would like to provide myself with dial in capabilities and run
>   things like Mosaic, Netscape and other X applications from home. (also 
>   FreeBsd) I've read some about PPP and SLIP and I'm still a bit confused.
>   If anyone can help answer some of my questions I would be greatfull.
>              
>   - I only have one IP from my ISP can i still run ppp or slip?

No, you will not be able to communicate with the greater internet unless 
you get a routable account from your ISP. (You will also need to get 
yourself allocated a block of addresses either from your ISP or nic)

>   - Is there any "REMOTE X" type applicatione i can use on dial-up?

Sure are, a couple of good free/shareware ones are Xwin, and Xwin32, you can 
also get some pretty good stuff from chamelion, but it costs $$$. Of 
course you can also use another UNIX box running Xwindows.

>   - Is there any way i can do one of the above from a DOS client?

If you are running windows.

>     ( please don't flame me , some co-workers don't have UNIX )
>    
>    I have already set up /dev/ttyd0 with USRobitics 14.4 and 
>    can use standard terminal emulator from home. I've read the FreeBSD
>    handbook sections on PPP and SLIP , the man pages don't seem to help.
> 
>    thanks in advance 
>        Ken Fallot     fallot@ecc.nyseg.com
> 
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