From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 19 14:44:33 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA17525 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA17506 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA08032; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Allen Hyer cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Terminal Server In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19961219160310.00687574@wtrt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)