From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 14:37:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01774 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01748 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29841; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:37:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Austin, Michael H POJ" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD as RAS server In-Reply-To: <8C52C20400E6D111992500A024B4276008D226@pojmail02.poj.usace.ar my.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Austin, Michael H POJ wrote: > Hope someone can help me out here. > We have an NT RAS server for folks to dial in to to access a Windows network > running TCP/IP. Reliability of the system is questionable. Ideally, I'd like a > FreeBSD machine to take over RAS duties YET be transparent to the remote users. > This would mean using the existing NT authentication (SAMBA?) and no changes to > the client machines (no scripting to handle "Login" prompts, etc). > Can this be done with FreeBSD? Sure. There's a gettytab capability 'pp' that will start the indicated program if getty receives PPP frames. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message