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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:03:10 -0600
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
From: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net>
Subject: Re: PPP Terminal Server
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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