Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:28:50 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Russell Ingram <russell.ingram@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User mode PPP Message-ID: <199709272228.XAA05629@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 22:17:34 PDT." <342C96EE.10A0@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>
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> 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.
You can use ppp in interactive mode by just typing "ppp" or
"ppp mylabel". Then you can type "term" at the ppp prompt to talk
directly to your modem.
There's no way to do a Win95-like ``popup'' after it's done the dial
bit, 'cos the chat stuff is internal. Someday I'll make it possible
to execute external commands (there's code in there to do it, but I
haven't gotten around to testing and documenting it - if you want to
make it work, I'd be happy to review & commit the mods).
> Thanks!!
> Russ
> russell.ingram@sandiegoca.ncr.com
>
> 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!!
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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