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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 12:26:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        inTEXT Communications <glenn@intextonline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Freebsd PPP -dialin
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510122521.4464X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3555EC61.3CD55FE8@intextonline.com>

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On Sun, 10 May 1998, inTEXT Communications wrote:

> I hope this doesnt appear to be a vague type of question.
> 
> For 1.5 weeks I have been trying to get ppp to answer in server mode and
> it seems nothing I do is working.
> 
> Im running 2.2.6
> 
> This is as far as I can get;
> I have configured ttys for /dev/ttyd1 libexec/getty
> 
> I now have the system answering as an incomming modem in terminal mode.
> 
> I have tried everythng it says to do..word for word in the manual..along
> with 5 other people..all working on one machine.  Not one of us have
> less then 3 years  Linux  experience.
> 
> We have tried compiling mgetty in PPP-Auto mode....tried configuring the
> scripts that run in /etc/ppp,
> and the end product is......the system does not answer...at
> all...period..
> 
> It looks like an mgetty problem.....

Did you set up mgetty with the proper setup, then add it to /dev/ttys,
then run `kill -1 1' to start it?  Mgetty isn't expecting the modem to
answer itself (ie auto-answer mode), is it?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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