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s m wrote:
> thanks guys for your replies,
> 
> now i understand two types of connections are available by modem, dial-in
> and dial-out.
> honestly, i should do it for my boss and don't know what he should want
> exactly to do but i am sure that he has an external serial modem and wants
> to config it by AT commands via a freebsd system; therefore i think our
> connection is dial-out.
> 
> now which files i should edit? just ppp.conf? and because our modem
> supports specific speed and flow control, is it necessary to set these
> parameters in my freebsd? and if yes, how i can do that?  please help me to
> do that
> 
> thanks
> 


There are very detailed ppp configuration instructions here
www.a1poweruser.com