Fwd: Dialup Terminal Access

[Isaac Wagner-Muns <fubar22%gmail.com@localhost>]

From: Isaac Wagner-Muns <fubar22%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: July 24, 2008 3:04:20 AM CDT
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: Dialup Terminal Access

how would one go about configuring the modem? is there a way to tell  
the modem to listen for calls at boot or should i write a script to do  
it?

> On Jul 24, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:25:34AM -0500, Isaac Wagner-Muns wrote:
> > > would anyone be able to point me to any reading materials that talk
> > > about setting up a netbsd system as a dial in terminal server? most
> > > things i've found seem to be talking about using PPP or SLIP, and  
> > > i'm
> > > just trying to run a simple shell server.
> >
> > It's been a while since I last did that, but there is not much to it:
> > you configure the modem to answer, connect it, edit /etc/ttys to  
> > select
> > the proper speed for that port - and that's it.
> >
> > If you need anything more fancy (like incoming faxes, autoselection  
> > of
> > ppp calls and shell calls) replace getty for that line with (for  
> > example)
> > comms/mgetty from pkgsrc.
> >
> > Martin




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