From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 14:04:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA23622 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23617 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:04:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01473; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:04:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailhost02.primenet.com(206.165.5.53), claiming to be "primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd001455; Fri Dec 19 15:04:26 1997 Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip208.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.208]) by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20935; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:04:22 -0700 (MST) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA25425; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:05:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:05:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712192205.OAA25425@foo.primenet.com> To: jlo@csrlink.net Subject: Re: ppp dialin connections Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <349ADC4F.B6E0C379@csrlink.net> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/