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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To: Dave Parks <dparks@taurus.srccomp.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP Question
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Dave Parks wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I apologize in advance if this question is answered somewhere that I haven't
> looked, but after spending the afternoon surfing the WEB, I can't find it.
> 
> I am trying to connect my home system running FreeBSD to our office's ppp
> server.  Our office's server is from Sonic and does not have a 'text'
> interface layer.  I cannot figure our how to connect without going through
> the 'chat' layer.  It seems that pppd always expects some form of text
> username/password string to be sent from the remote host.

[snip]

Below is an example you can use. The key setting is:

	set openmode active

which initiates the conversation once the phone picks up.

Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen                          e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz
  Pinnacle Software Ltd                Voice  : +64.9.415.4460
  Auckland, New Zealand                Fax    : +64.9.415.4250
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#################################################################
#
#  	PPP Configuration File
#
#################################################################
default:
 set device /dev/cuaa2
 set speed 38400
 disable lqr
 deny lqr
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT&FB0&G2&P1S11=60 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"

#
# PAP connection with local ISP
#
isp-pap:
 set phone 1234567
 set debug chat phase lcp
 accept pap
 set authname MyUserName
 set authkey  MyPassword
 set timeout 0
 set openmode active