Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:34:05 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Ken Bolingbroke" <ken@bolingbroke.com>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT- Listening to a port Message-ID: <001d01bf8a96$d1969f20$bb9fc5d1@webserver>
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On Friday, March 10, 2000 2:49 AM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >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 :) I don't think that the "dialer" uses a different identification "string", so that's a plus. I did scoop a utility called "windump" which I got working yesterday. I captured the "connection dialogue", but I'm not knowledgable enough to interpret it. I'll have to find a *nix-friendly ISP I guess. Thanks for your input! -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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