Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:05:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: jlo@csrlink.net Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ppp dialin connections Message-ID: <199712192205.OAA25425@foo.primenet.com> References: <349ADC4F.B6E0C379@csrlink.net>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >I'm a newby to this mailing list, so sorry if this question is in the >wrong place... >I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 on P100 with 16MB RAM and a 1GB >HDD. (I know, puny system, upgrade is coming soon). I've been playing >around with FreeBSD for about 6 months now, and I've finally set some >goals to accomplish. I'm trying set up dialin accounts so that someone, >say with a Win95 box, can call up my system via modem and connect with >Win95's dialup networking. It sorta works now, but there is something >that I'm missing. When the Win95 system calls up, I get the error >message that it couldn't connect, and to check the TCP/IP settings. >But, if I enalbe a terminal window after dailup, and manually type in >the username and password, and hit F7 to continue, it works fine. Any >ideas? I believe that Win95 wants to do PAP over the connection. I think there is some getty (mgetty?) / pppd settings connection which will do PAP automatically. You might want to search in the archives / handbook for this information; I don't know it offhand. >Also, since I've joined the mailling list last night, I must have >recieved 200 messages. Is there any alternative to the mailing list, >such as a news group that does the same thing? Thanks for the help! >L8er >Justin There is comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc , but the signal/noise ratio there is much lower. This is the best place to get questions answered, if for no other reason than that Doug White is here. :) One trick that you can use is to gate your freebsd mailing lists to newsgroups; I've done this and it makes it much easier to read the lists. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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