Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 06:43:14 -0800 From: "James A. Taylor" <archiver@db.geocrawler.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user ppp, getty and baud rate Message-ID: <199912041443.GAA01550@www.geocrawler.com>
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This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com> Be sure to reply to that address. I have configured a FreeBSD server to provide dial-in access using getty and user ppp. In order to accomplish this I followed method two in the user ppp man page for receiving incoming calls. I set :pp for the defaut profile in the /etc/gettytab file. As long as I use std.19200 as the profile setting for the ttyd in /etc/ttys then I can connect from a remote (Win98) computer using ppp. If I use a different profile such as std.9600 or std.38400 then ppp is never started by getty. It would appear that getty doesn't recognize that ppp is needed at other speeds. I just tried logging in via a regular dial-up terminal application rather than ppp and found that at 19200 I get a login prompt however at other speeds all I get is garbage characters. This would explain why the ppp transmisions from the win98 box are not noticed. I have an Echo Communications 56K fax modem attaced to the FreeBSD server answering the incoming calls. Typically I would like to use the std.115200 profile and then have the modem accept calls from modems of all speeds (14.4, 19.2, 28.8, 33.6 & 56.8) automatically adjusting the baud rate as needed. I have tried using two different computers to dial in both of which work with our ISP. One computer has a SupraExpress 33.6k modem the other is a Xircom 56T 56.8K modem. Are their any suggestions on how I can get this to work in such a manner that I can automatically detect the baud rate and use that rate be it 14.4k, 56.8k or anything in between. I have FreeBSD 3.1-Release installed on a Pentium 333Mhz system. Thanks for your assistance James A. Taylor Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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