Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 05:18:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> Cc: tech@adn.edu.ph, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC to FreeBSD PPP Connection (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960815051407.17528A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199608150810.RAA02615@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Peter Childs wrote: > : Hello everybody!! > > : I will re send this question because I did not get an answer yet!! > : anybody here would like to help me...i'm so desperate to have a > : a reply!! > : Thank you again and more power to all subscriber here!! > > [question about mac ppp] > > I read your first question but I think you're having problems with > the Mac side of it. There is no problem on your ISP side or i'm > sure they would have noticed it. > > Ask your ISP if they have any other MAC users that you can get to > assist you with your connection. > > You'll probably find that you also need some sort of script to do > the login process. If you just start talking PPP packets to most > ISP's it won't work, so ask your ISP if your username has actually > every logged on. > Erk, I kinda hate to pop my head up here, but I had unresolved problems with this as well...almost exactly how its being described. One of my staff was having a problem with his Mac connecting to our FreeBSD box with a single modem on it...we ended up just switching over to using a terminal server instead, since I figured it was a modem incompatibility... My Mac is in the shop, else I would re-test it, including connecting it with a serial cable directly to my FreeBSD box... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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