Technical Information Inside NCSA Science HPC Users Private Sector Technology Partners Archive How to Use the Dialup Terminal Server in Prompt mode PPP mode is the preferred way to connect to the Internet using dialup service. If PPP is not available for your system, you will need to use the dialup terminal server in prompt mode. In prompt mode, users are able to connect to computer systems on the Internet using the telnet command.
Online help is available in prompt mode on the Cisco terminal server.
Here the help output indicates that we have a complete command, and we need only press enter to execute it. Note that this is not a command you should need to use, as the speed of the serial lines is already set for you. It is here as an example only. One more thing to remember about the help command on the Cisco is that it does not interfere with the partial command you have already typed. The Cisco also features command completion.