[PLUG] ISP shell access still in demand?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Mar 13 15:32:01 UTC 2003


On 13 Mar 2003, Russell Senior wrote:

> You have a "shell prompt" on the system you are dialing from.  Once
> you have an IP connection to your ISP, slogin (or whatever) to the
> system on your office network.
> 
>                                       ------
>    +--------+        +-------+      (        )    +---------+
>    | remote +~~~~~~~~+  ISP  +-----( internet )---+ office  |
>    +--------+        +-------+      (        )    +---------+
>                                       ------
> 
> You dial-in from the remote system to your ISP over a modem.  ISP
> gives you an IP number.  You run slogin on remote system, connecting
> it to the IP number at your office.  Everything just works.

  D'uh! That's right. I needed the shell account only when I was not running
my own mail server and would have to check mail they had stored for me.

Thanks, Russell (with 2 els),

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

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