From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 00:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA25203 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA25192 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA04877 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:20:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA15907; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:09:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971105090919.OC28248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:09:19 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp & pppctl References: <199711032241.WAA06861@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199711032241.WAA06861@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Nov 3, 1997 22:41:59 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > 4. No socket is created by default. > > 1. You *must* set a password in /etc/ppp/ppp.secrets or on the > "set server" command line: > > set server|socket TcpPort|LocalName|none [passwd] [mask] > > 2. If you specify an empty password, you don't need to use the > ``passwd'' command. > 3. You can *always* -USR1 ppp to re-open the socket on > AF_INET:3000+tunno. Please, accompany this by an AF_LOCAL socket example in the ppp.conf files (as a comment), so people will have a quick way of finding out how to use it. > 6. Pppctl will have an ``interactive'' mode, taking away ``telnet''s > attraction. That's great, yep! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)