From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 31 6: 8:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D431137BB5E for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13808 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:08:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from dougy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.131), claiming to be "DOUGY" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdu13806; Mon Jul 31 23:08:13 2000 Message-ID: <005701bffaf0$eb23a4e0$837e03cb@DOUGY> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: FreeBSD to FreeBSD dialin configuration Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:11:56 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFFB44.B8FC3EB0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFFB44.B8FC3EB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Would someone please enlighten me as to what hocus pocus is involved in getting a FreeBSD to FreeBSD dialup connection to authenticate ?? The situation is a remote LAN (various Win9x systems with a FreeBSD = gateway)=20 connecting via dialup modem to another FreeBSD box with a permanent = modem=20 connection to the net. It seems a Win98 to FreeBSD dialup connection is = quite=20 straightforward, but achieving the same thing with FreeBSD to FreeBSD is = near=20 impossible. So far I've spent days trying everything hinted at in extremely terse = docs without achieving anything but a huge phone bill. Neither getty nor mgetty works = like its=20 supposed to ... the remote machine picks up the incoming call but drops = the line=20 after a few seconds. I've currently got mgetty debug set at 9 but all = that tells me=20 is a lot of rubbish about fax errors (despite all the fax lines being = commented out). =20 I've had the link working for some time using Win2000 dialup to FreeBSD, = but hoping to improve the reliability by replacing the Win2000 system with FreeBSD. = I've been trying=20 to use user-ppp for both links due to the very handy "-ddial" function = ... unfortunately it looks like I'll need to stick with Win2000 for this job unless someone = can provide some=20 insights as to what's needed to make it work properly with FreeBSD. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BFFB44.B8FC3EB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Would someone please enlighten me as to = what hocus=20 pocus is involved in
getting a FreeBSD to FreeBSD dialup = connection to=20 authenticate ??
The situation is a remote LAN (various = Win9x=20 systems with a FreeBSD gateway)
connecting via dialup modem to another = FreeBSD box=20 with a permanent modem
connection to the net. It seems a Win98 to FreeBSD dialup connection is quite =
straightforward, but achieving the same thing with FreeBSD to FreeBSD is near =
impossible.
 
So far I've spent days trying = everything hinted at=20 in extremely terse docs without
achieving anything=20 but a huge phone bill. Neither getty nor mgetty works like its =
supposed to ... the=20 remote machine picks up the incoming call but drops the line =
after a few seconds.=20 I've currently got mgetty debug set = at 9 but all=20 that tells me
is a lot of rubbish=20 about fax errors (despite all the fax lines being commented out). =20
 
I've had the link working for some time = using=20 Win2000 dialup to FreeBSD, but hoping to
improve the reliability by replacing = the Win2000=20 system with FreeBSD. I've been trying
to use user-ppp for both links due to = the very=20 handy "-ddial" function ... unfortunately it
looks like I'll need to stick with = Win2000 for this=20 job unless someone can provide some
insights as to what's needed to make it = work=20 properly with FreeBSD.
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