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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Terminal Server
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:07:13 -0600 (CST)
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> Get a livingston portmaster :)
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Justin England wrote:
> 
> > I'll be setting up a FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE machine as a term server and 
> > haven't found any documentation on what needs to be done.
> > 
> > I have read the manpages on setting up PPP etc, but it was vauge on what 
> > I need to do in order to have my users login, use PAP, and start the PPP 
> > sessions with dynamic IP address assigned.
> > 
> > If somebody could point me to some documention that could explain this, 
> > I'd appreciate it.

Get a DOS box.

This really isn't all that hard!  You need a ppp-aware getty.  There are
changes committed to -current on 11/13 that add a "pp=" capability to
getty that can be used for this purpose, they appear to be derived from
the changes I published last summer to 2.1.0R/2.1.5R getty.

To do this, you will also need a script called "ppplogin" to properly
invoke pppd or iij-ppp, as you wish.

You can also use mgetty for this, from what I am told.

It ain't rocket science.  One of my very first uses for FreeBSD was as a
terminal server; it's why I switched from NetBSD.  (NetBSD's com driver
sucked).  That was way back before FreeBSD 1.0R.

... JG