http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html
The page itself is a mess (it's being worked on) but if dialin ppp access
is what you want, that's how to do it.
Dan
At 09:21 PM 4/20/98 +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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>At 12:35 4/20/98 -0500, Cory T. Lamb wrote:
>>Hello,
>>at my college we have ppp in all of the buildings except dorms. We have a
>>limited supply of dialup lines. So I was wondering if there is a good way
>>to setup a 386 on the ethernet network and then dial into that machine and
>>telnet to our mail server. If someone could let me know how to setup a
>>machine to auto answer and then what I would need to do to telnet into the
>>mail server if there would be anything different I would appreciate it.
>>Thanks,
>>cory
>
>Read the Serial-HOWTO. You won't need PPP unless you want to transfer the
>mail off the mail server. Otherwise you can dail into the 386 using plain
>serial dialup and telnet into the mail server and run pine or elm to read
>mail.
>
>Tony
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