Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:21:04 +1000 From: "dougy" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dialin PPP Message-ID: <012401befcb4$b46fef20$857e03cb@jdy>
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Thanks Brian By "ppp(8)" do you mean kernel ppp ?? >> (1) Are there are conflicts using user-ppp & kernel-ppp at same time > >No, although I'd tend to use ppp(8) for incoming ppp too - for the >same reasons I'd use it for outgoing. >> (3) Is there an advantage in using mgetty instead of getty .... and if so >> is it simply a matter of replacing references to getty or is >> there other stuff that needs to be done to use mgetty > >Mgetty actively does things to your tty whereas getty usually doesn't. I haven't got mgetty installed at present because when I did it kept filling my hard drive with countless messages, so I re-installed BSD without selecting mgetty .... according to the docs I've read about setting up dialin, this uses getty rather than mgetty, so the business about "actively does things" mean anything immediately relevant to my present project which is simply configuring the thing so I can login to my LAN and hopefully the internet by dialling in from another remote location ?? > >[.....] >-- >Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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