Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Allen Hyer <allenh@wtrt.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Terminal Server Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961219142402.328W-100000@nike> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19961219160310.00687574@wtrt.net>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Allen Hyer wrote: > 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? the above (with stock pppd) requires that you have a list of users/passwords for pppd to work... but I have modifications that allow you to do what you want... if your interested in the patches I will send them to you... they include another feature that I'm thinking about removing (netroute)... I also added the feature that will only do PPP to users that have a P in their class field... not sure if this will be useful to you or not... but I thought I should mention it... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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