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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:12:23 +0100
From:      Stefan Bethke <stefan.bethke@hanse.de>
To:        Julian Stacey <jhs@jhs.muc.de>
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Collins <CollinsM@csi.com>, John Pfoestl <100722.3450@compuserve.com>, Karlheinz Eckmeier <Karlheinz.Eckmeier@mch.sni.de>
Subject:   Re: Compuserve + i4b + *BSD interfacing experience ?
Message-ID:  <176032.3130139543@d225.promo.de>
In-Reply-To: <199903101601.QAA08919@jhs.muc.de>

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Julian Stacey <jhs@jhs.muc.de> wrote:

> then another friend 
>	 "John Pfoestl" <100722.3450@compuserve.com>
> told me (in a noisy bar, so hope it's correct) that Compuserve uses
> X75 over PPP ?. 

You dial into the CIS access node by either modem or X.75 (for Germany;
other european countries sometimes use V.120 oder do not provide ISDN
access at all). After authenticating with CIS as usual, you start
asynchronous PPP, which runs on some boxes in the U.S. By logging in with
"123456,1234/GO:PPPCONNECT", starting PPP is done immediately after
authentication, else your chat script must wait for the first "!" prompt
and enter "go pppconnect."

Obviously, this doesn't work with i4b at all, because we neither have X.75
nor a tty interface suitable for pppd(8) or ppp(8). However, I think I
remember at least rumors that CIS will provide "real" PPP dial-in sometime
in the future.


HTH,
Stefan

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