From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 1:49:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9A537B99F for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:49:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat53.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.245]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id LAA05562 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:48:58 +0200 Received: (qmail 79291 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Mar 2000 08:14:31 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:14:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: Ken Bolingbroke , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: OT- Listening to a port Message-ID: <20000310101431.A78233@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <003601bf8985$33bdddc0$549dc5d1@webserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <003601bf8985$33bdddc0$549dc5d1@webserver>; from 01031149@3web.net on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:52:52PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:52:52PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > On Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:42 AM Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > >> I don't have an immediate answer to your question, but have you tried >> asking your ISP? I used to run an ISP's network, and I wouldn't >> have had any problem with helping a customer get their dialup access >> working... > > The dialer that I have to use (and am using) is only for win9x. There > is no *nix version. So I'm just trying to figure out how to "capture" > the "connection dialogue" in order to duplicate it using FBsd and PPP. > Thanks! If the dialer for Win 9x uses a different identification "string" each time you log onto your ISP's ppp server, then you might be searching for more than just the captured log. Trying to break an authentication scheme that is based on some form of 'challenge', might be difficult. I think that you'll be better off asking your ISP to provide more information on the dial-in procedure, if they're not going to make a Unix client soon. Even if they reply that "we're not distributing a binary of our client for any Unix because there are so many bloody versions of the OS, that we could not develop one client working on them all", you can still reply that given some specification of what the client is expected to do, you (or some other Unix-guru of the area) can come up with one in a fair amount of time :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message