Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:26:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: mgetty+AutoPPP pointers? Message-ID: <200107131426.f6DEQVW59391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:18:42 PDT." <15181.56306.410897.853739@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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There's stuff in the ppp(8) man page about this -- although I've deprecated the mgetty stuff in favour of getty which is capable of doing the same thing. > Hello all, > > I want to configure a server machine I have at home to answer a phone line via > internal modem and setup a PPP connection to the "outside world" (the machine > is connected via broadband) for a Win98 machine being the remote caller. > > I've read up a little on mgetty and its use of AutoPPP to fire off pppd via > various google searches. Many of the links I've brought up are reasonably > decent explanations, but based around Linux setups. > > Does anybody have any bookmarked pointers to setting up mgetty+AutoPPP under > FreeBSD -STABLE? > > I've dug through a few bits and I know our in-tree compilation of pppd is > compiled with -DCHAPMS (which the Linux-related pointers said to make sure you > used when compiling pppd) and our port of mgetty+sendfax does define > -DAUTO_PPP during compilation (which was another "must"). Is there anything > else that is needed to enable the code to DTRT? > > If anybody has done this sort of thing and wishes to share config files, or > "gotchas" I would much appreciate it! Please 'cc:' me. > > After grepping the archives, it looks like this topic has come up a lot with > varied answers but no real "pointers." If somebody has pointers or sample > config files, I would be happy to try and mark them up and submit them to the > -doc project! > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org> http://www.freebsd-services.com/ <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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