Free Dial-Up Internet Access: Linux

We haven't put together recent documentation. Our SWIG pages have some older documentation on setting up PPP at home, including documentation for doing this under linux.

Michael Reid pointed out that your Linux at home might already come with the package "kppp", in which case you should simply use that. Some information from him on that appears below, as well as information on forwarding X connections.

 redir X
       X Redir: In csh/tcsh/etc. type:  setenv DISPLAY :0.0

    where    is some numeric address.

4.  before making an ssh connection, authorize that host to make X
    connections, with

     % xhost + 

    this is typed in a shell on my home computer.

5.  when opening an ssh session (use ssh -X) set the environment
    variable  DISPLAY  as slirp says, above.  now you can use X
    applications.
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