Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:26:43 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org, muir@idiom.com Subject: Re: bin/1019 Message-ID: <199604190626.KAA00368@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199604182156.PAA01493@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at "Apr 18, 96 03:56:49 pm"
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> > > dialer?), but the reason that some PPP packages don't understand a > > > regular Unix login sequence but wanna use PAP or CHAP instead doesn't > > > sound totally unreasonable. At least, everything is hidden inside a > > > > If you use PAP/CHAP only, don't even start getty over this line, > > just start pppd on it directly. > > What happens if that modem isn't a dedicated modem, and can be used by > non-PPP users? Then use PPP wchich understand login/password :-) The problem with auto-detecting is line noise. It is possible that some incoming junk looks like packet, detecting procedure must be smart enough and detect several long packets in sequence to be shure, not just one small packet. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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