Re: PPP

[Paul Chau <Paul.Chau@nms.otc.com.au>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 mattice@mattice.reslife.okstate.edu wrote:

> >>>>> "JHMD" == J H M Dassen <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> 
>     >> logon to a normal telnet getty and then start up a PPP connection
>     >> from the command line?  I have a dialup connection to the whole
> 
>     JHMD> I'm not aware of such a tool for PPP, but there is one for
>     JHMD> SLIP: SLiRP. Basically, you dial in, make a terminal
>     JHMD> connection, preferably make that connection 8-bit clean, and
>     JHMD> start a daemon on the remote system.
> 
>     JHMD> Check out /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Dip+SLiRP+CSLIP.gz (doc-linux
>     JHMD> package).
> 
> 	I know that FreeBSD has such a tool, but I haven't been able to
> find such a beast for Linux..
> 
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If you can run slirp, don't you know that slirp can simulate slip, cslip
and ppp.

I used pppd to talk to slirp. ftp, telnet and netscape run well.

Regards.
Paul
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