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10.5. Does FreeBSD support SLIP and PPP?

Yes. See the man pages for slattach, sliplogin, pppd and ppp. pppd and ppp provide support for both incoming and outgoing connections. Sliplogin deals exclusively with incoming connections and slattach deals exclusively with outgoing connections.

These programs are described in the following sections of the handbook:

If you only have access to the Internet through a "shell account", you may want to have a look at the slirp package. It can provide you with (limited) access to services such as ftp and http direct from your local machine.


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