Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:03:31 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: User PPP dial in modem configuration for FBSD 4.4 Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEBHCIAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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To all FBSD users I have been posting to this FBSD Questions group for weeks asking about user ppp configuration for answering incoming calls to FBSD box from MS/windows box. Only responses are from nerds making comments about ms/windows. Been through 8 books on FBSD and Unix looking for info. Every thing is sooo out of date as to be useless. Even the new FBSD handbook user-ppp incoming calls section reads like FAQ instead of giving useful info and examples. So I have decided to change my approach from asking questions to asking for someone who has a working user ppp dialin to FBSD and dialout to ISP environment using modems to just list the contents of all the configuration files necessary to define there working environment. Give me a working example for FBSD 4.4 and I can take it from there. To remove all unknown variables I have created a test PC with a FBSD 4.4 system right out the box. All the configuration files are as delivered from the install CD. NO firewall, no filtering, no NIC card or LAN behind the FBSD box, using the GENERIC kernel. A very simple system with out any changes at all. Have all ready addressed the controller less win modem issue. Using two pre win modem era external 14.4 modems I retrieved from the archive obsolete equipment bin at work. I know the modems are functional because I tested them using windows98 dialer to my ISP. Also used FBSD tip command to issue Hayes AT command and received OK response. Please somebody who has a working user ppp modem environment that answers incoming calls from a ms/windows box and dials out to an ISP, would you post the contents of the configuration files to your working environment. If you had to do any manual hand tweaking to file permissions or links or what ever please include this info also. If you do not have both directions (dialin/dialout), then examples of just dialout or just dialin would still be helpful. To the best of my knowledge here are the config files required From the ETC directory Gettytab, group, host.conf, hosts, rc.conf, resolv.conf, ttys From the ETC/PPP directory ppp.conf, ppp.secret From /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin login script file named ppplogin or what ever name you used From master.password User id definition for user who dials in From ppp.secret User id definition for user who dials in From /var/log/ppp.log Messages generated when dial out connection is made to ISP followed by the messages generated when dial in user connects to FBSD box from ms/windows. If your environment uses the linkup and linkdown files please include them. If I have missed any config files that you use please include them. Please accept my sincere thank yous to the person who steps up to the plate and takes the time and makes the effort to answer this post. Sincerely Yours Joe Barbish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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