Subj : Remote Dial-In Networking To : MIKE POWELL From : Angus Mcleod Date : Thu Apr 14 2005 09:18 am Re: Remote Dial-In Networking By: MIKE POWELL to ANGUS MCLEOD on Wed Apr 13 2005 19:50:00 > Ah-ha. This was the part that I was having trouble understanding. That is, > how the modem gets answered. I could not find anything with ppp that > actually suggested that it would do it, but that is what the getty is for. Yes, the 'getty' program answers the phone, calls 'login' to check passwords, etc, and drops you to the shell. When you exit the shell, the 'getty' program starts monotoring the line again. (That's what the "respawn" in /etc/inittab is for.) > I also didn't see anything in what I read about ppp that would suggest that > it did anything for incoming traffic, just dial-out. I will consult the > man pages on that as well. Once you're at your username@hostname:~$ shell prompt (or whatever the prompt looks like) you can issue the 'pppd' command with apropriate options as needed, to turn the plain dial-up connection into a PPP network connection. If you connect using a regular terminal emulator and just want the shell-prompt you don't issue the 'pppd' command, but if calling with an internet dialler (like Windows DUN) you add the apropriate 'pppd' command as a third entry in the connection script, after and . --- þ Synchronet þ Linus is a regular at The ANJO BBS. No, Linus Brathwaite! .