The older Annex servers support PPP, but rely upon receiving appropriate commands from the user's end to initiate the PPP session. The Annex servers can also be used for simple telnet access to the Internet, but this is unlikely to be very useful nowadays. Any changes you make will be lost after you disconnect. Enter your Computing Services email password. Modified 4 August 1994.
Unauthorised use is forbidden.
For instance, you could enter telnet mail instead of telnet mail.soton.ac.uk . If your connection is successful you will be prompted for a user name and password. PPP sessions parameters will then be negotiated and you then have full Internet access through the dial-up connection. It is possible to set up more than one connection to a remote computer from the Annex. Each connection is called a job .