> Are there any programs available for linux that allow you to > logon to a normal telnet getty and then start up a PPP connection from > the command line? I have a dialup connection to the whole network, but > the PPP lines for this school are monstrously overcrowded.
I'm not aware of such a tool for PPP, but there is one for SLIP: SLiRP. Basically, you dial in, make a terminal connection, preferably make that connection 8-bit clean, and start a daemon on the remote system. Check out /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Dip+SLiRP+CSLIP.gz (doc-linux package). Hope this helps, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
