From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 23:49:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA24260 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24255 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA26564; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:49:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Russell Ingram cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User mode PPP In-Reply-To: <60ic5u$sdc$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 27 Sep 1997, Russell Ingram wrote: > I read the "PPP - Pedantic PPP Primer", by Steve Sims It's a great > document. In it he suggests on page 11 (4.2.1.2 the 4th paragraph) that > one can have PPP "bring up a terminal window after dialing". One of the > places I connect to requires this. I looked for an example and in the > sample PPP configuration files in version 2.2.2 I couldn't find an > example of how to do this. Could someone point me in the right > direction. Run the ``term'' command to drop to terminal mode. > PS Being an old UNIX administrator, FreeBSD is very impressive. I wish I > had more time to play with it!! > > And the user mode PPP is really good!! Glad you enjoy it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major