Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 23:46:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Dialin PPP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970502234422.4330B-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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Hello, I am sorry if I am wasting your time with this, since it is probably some stupid little file I missed, but I don't know who else to ask, and was referred here. I recently purchased a Cyclades 8Yo multiport serial card, and am trying to set up a terminal server with FreeBSD using mgetty. I have compiled the new kernel for the Cyclades card, made the device nodes and have been successful in getting mgetty compiled and running. I am at the point now that if I dial in with a modem under Win95, with a direct connection to the machine (hyperterminal or even a terminal window using dial-up networking), I can get a prompt and login with no problem. When I dial in using dial-up networking, I bring up a terminal window to see how far I get. It connects, negotiates, and goes through the normal login procedure, and when I choose to have it start the ppp session, it does the usual verifying username and password and minimizes as if I had acheived a clean connect. When I go to do something, such as even pinging the machine I am dialing into, I get no response...everything just dies right there. We have been trying everything we could read and get our hands on, but the documentation on mgetty isn't too clear (or we just aren't interpreting it correctly). I am not sure which files need to be added to and/or modified anymore. I was also using as a guideline a page from an ISP in N.Y. who has the same set up, all working correctly under LINUX. I wrote him, and he said I wouldn't have to do anything special, stating that it should run fine without any extra modification (other than the usual differences in directory and file names) under BSD. I have been trying to replicate the 'Working as a PPP server' part of the handbook with the /etc/ppp/options file, but I really am not too straight on the way to assign IP Addresses (right now I just want one to work, I am not worried about assigning multiple dynamic IP's yet). Mgetty should be calling pppd automatically, and it seems to, but there is just something wrong or missing with the config files and there are so many of them that we don't know what exactly controls what (we have ideas, but it is hard to narrow things down when there are several files which may or may not have an affect). The machine is a 386-DX/33 with 16 Mb of RAM, running FreeBSD 2.2.1-Release, mgetty+sendfax 1.0.0, and pppd 2.2.0. I have a Cyclades 8Yo 8-port multiport card. The modem I am using on the sending end is a USR Sportster 33.6, and the modem on the receiving end is a Boca 28.8, soon to be replaced with said USR 33.6. This is most likely a stupid problem, but it is so frustrating when you know that it partly works... Thanks. -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net
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