From owner-freebsd-isdn Thu Mar 11 2:14:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mail.promo.de (mail.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD43E1504D for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan.bethke@hanse.de) Received: from d225.promo.de (d225.Promo.DE [194.45.188.225]) by mail.promo.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05761; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:12:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:12:23 +0100 From: Stefan Bethke To: Julian Stacey Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Collins , John Pfoestl <100722.3450@compuserve.com>, Karlheinz Eckmeier Subject: Re: Compuserve + i4b + *BSD interfacing experience ? Message-ID: <176032.3130139543@d225.promo.de> In-Reply-To: <199903101601.QAA08919@jhs.muc.de> Originator-Info: login-id=stefan; server=mail X-Mailer: Mulberry (MacOS) [1.4.2, s/n U-301178] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian Stacey 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 -- M=FChlendamm 12 | Voice +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22089 Hamburg | e-mail: stefan.bethke@hanse.de Germany | stb@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message