[afnog] PPP dial in on FreeBSD

[antonio at nambu.uem.mz]

Thanks Brian,

It is very useful the info, I have read it but I am still confused about the 
getty and mgetty. After reading about it in the net it seems that mgetty 
is the better choice but it seems it needs to be installed. I am possibly 
going to try it but I am still confused about the connection between 
PPP and mgetty.

Cheers,



On 27 Oct 2004 at 22:46, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:47:50PM +0200, antonio at nambu.uem.mz wrote:
> > I have a FreeBSD machine with ver 5.2 and it is a gateway between a
> LAN > and the Internet using NAT as well. > > I would like to setup
> PPP dial in so that I can dial into this server and access > the
> internet. Can someone point me in the right direction as to what I
> should > configure or use?
> 
> The FreeBSD handbook is a good place to start.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
> (this is linked from the front page of www.freebsd.org)
> 
> Section 20.4 is about configuring your system for accepting incoming
> calls.
> 
> Chapter 21 is about PPP and SLIP, and 21.2.1.3.3 also talks about
> receiving incoming calls, referring to getty and mgetty.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.