Very Computer

I realize some related questions have been discussed before, but I think
this one
is a little different....
I need to configure a RedHat 7.3 system to allow users (typically on
Win/xx systems)
to dial into it and connect via PPP.   (I'm doing this now on  SCO
UnixWare systems and
need to accomplish the same thing on Linux.)  I've looked at lots of
HOWTOs and
such documents.  Almost all of them seem to be several years old for
back level
(5.x, 6.x) systems and the available progams and configuration files
have
apparently changed quite a bit.  For example, most of the HOWTOs talk
about
mgetty, but RH 7.3 has agetty and mingetty, but no mgetty.  Of course, I
can't find any
current 'HOWTOs' for agetty....  Soo....
Can any point me to information on setting up a simple (single
line/port) PPP
server for a RH 7.3 system??
(I can, of course, pull down and install mgetty if that is the proper
thing to do, but I
figure there is a reason agetty is included today.)

Thanks
Mike

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:43:50 -0500

AFAIK RH 7.3 does have mgetty.
ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/Re...

tor:~# tail -n4 /etc/inittab
# Example how to put a getty on a modem line.
#
#T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
provided you do have a modem on ttyS3

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:59:56 -0500,

RH7.3 does have mgetty; it is on the third CD.

Villy

Check http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ISP-Setup-RedHat-HOWTO.html
--

Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.

james.knott.

I sort of 'gave in' and just went and grabbed an appropriate level of mgetty.
Once that was installed, configuration was reasonably straightforward...

I still wonder what the  diference is between mgetty, agetty, and mingetty...

Thanks
Mike