Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:03:10 -0600 From: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Terminal Server Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19961219160310.00687574@wtrt.net>
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At 01:56 PM 12/19/96 -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Allen Hyer wrote: > >> Ok, here is what I want to do. I would like to make a FreeBSD box to be a >> terminal server. The only protocol I need is PPP. >> >> 1. Is the mgetty+sendfax the way to go on the software side? I have >> looked at this some, and it looks like it will do what I want, but before I >> dug in I wanted to know if this was the best software to use for my >> application. > >well.. do you want JUST ppp? or ppp and logins? over here on my terminal >server I run a specially modified version of mgetty+sendfax that will do >authentication in mgetty instead of passing it off to a second program (if >I choose)... but if you just want PPP you probably should just look at >using pppd, setting your modems to autoanswer.. and point pppd to >/dev/ttydxx... > Yes, all I want is PPP, but I failed to mention in my previous post that I want to use PAP authentication, and use the user accounts on the other machine for the lookup. Can I do this with what you describe above? Allen Hyer System Administrator West Texas Rural Telephone
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