Subject: Re: dial up connection
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Guy Santiglia <fredfl2@soback.kornet.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/25/1999 07:05:41
  I'll give that a try and let you know what happens. 

   Thanks,

		Guy

On Mon, 24 May 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> You might like to try comms/mgetty+sendfax from the package system.
> Didn't have much luck with my BestData 33.6, but that was over a year
> ago, and that modem was prone to hanging. What mgetty is supposed to
> do is let you take logins, answer faxes, or act as an answering
> machine depending on who or what calls.
> 
> Without a program like mgetty, it's going to be difficult to get both
> dialins and demand dailing to work, because for demand dialing pppd
> stays open and ties up the port. The best I've ever been able to do is
> to run "uugetty" from ttys, and then bring up ppp manually to dial
> out.
> 
> 
> 
> 

____________________________________________________________
Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.3!
South Korea
____________________________________________________________