Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:24:46 -0700 From: "Don Sutter" <drs@suntreeaz.com> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mgetty for dialup service? Message-ID: <02fb01c179f6$363bf7e0$13fea8c0@drs> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAEAJCIAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Joe, I'd be more than happy to assist you if I am able. I kind of get the impression that most (all UN*X based) ISP's know what is going on but it's not in their best interest(s) to share any information with this community. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Don Sutter" <drs@suntreeaz.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: RE: mgetty for dialup service? > Don > I have been pounding this group for months on the subject of FBSD and > modems. This FBSD questions group is greatly lacking in expertise on the use > of modems to connect to ISP's and to dial in to FBSD from MS/windows. Even > the new FBSD Handbook has no real meaningful info on this subject. The > section on serial connections and user ppp for dial in/out in the new > handbook must have been written and reviewed by fools. From my reading and > research into the archives, mgetty, tip, and minicom are all left overs from > the 1970's before the start of ms/windows. They were designed for UNIX type > boxes to talk to each other. If you want to use the ms/windows dialer to > dial into a FBSD box you have to setup PPP on FBSD to accept dialin calls > because ms/windows is designed to dial in to a ISP expecting ppp with CHAT > to process ID/PW. I have setup a user ppp environment to use a modem to > dialout to my ISP and another modem to receive incoming calls from a > MS/windows box. When I dial my ISP I see the DSN IP address from my ISP get > placed in the resolv.conf file. When I dial in to the FBSD box from > ms/windows I get connected and can do a FBSD who command and see the login > name from my ms/windows box. But I can not get TN3270 to connect to FBSD, or > browse the internet with ms/explorer, or FTP any internet sites from > ms/windows. I am willing to give you the FBSD configuration files for what I > have working in return for your help in getting the whole thing working. I > am on FBSD 4.4. Once I have a working model and the understanding of what is > happening I want to write an update to the handbook for those people who > follow us. Let me know if you are interested and have the background to work > out the final bugs. > > Joe > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Don Sutter > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:26 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: mgetty for dialup service? > > I would like to connect to my FreeBSD box and surf the > internet from home. Is mgetty the best way to connect > dialup Windows systems to the internet via my BSD > system -and- does anyone know a good tutorial on the > subject? > > Thanks > > Don Sutter > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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