From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 5:43:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100D837B994 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 05:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.159.187]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FR7KRW00.0FH; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:43:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01bf8a96$d1969f20$bb9fc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: Cc: "Ken Bolingbroke" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: OT- Listening to a port Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:34:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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