[svlug] Dial In PPP

[Tom Harincar]

> 
> At 04:30 PM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm trying to set up a RH 5.1 machine to allow myself to dial in via
> >PPP.
> [rest deleted]

Don't know if this will help (stuff you probably already know) but I
have a guy in London who sometimes needs to access one of my systems
for maintainence.  We do this via a PPP connection - I connect,
check ifconfig for the assigned IP address and provide it to him via
voice or email.  He connects to his ISP and does "telnet [IP
adddress]" - this procedure has been working OK so far and is a lot
cheaper than him dialing in directly to California.  Obviously, he
is a trusted user and I don't stay connected very long.   Not sure
though, how you would establish a PPP connection on a machine which
is unattended and needs to get connected on demand and disconnected
when you are finished.  Like everything else though, I suspect there
is a way and smarter people than I will know how to do it.

BTW, I do this on RH 5.1

Tom Harincar <tomh at netzero.net>

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