Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:13:53 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: setting up pppd dial-in on linux |
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:04:48AM -0600, William Scott Lockwood III wrote: > Jeff, > I am also VERY interested in this, particularly on getting modems to work > with Linux at all. I'm not reading the list right now, but I'd appreciate > any feedback you can throw my way on this. Esp. if you DO get it setup and > working. It sure would be nice to see Linux FINALLY support more modems out > there. Hell, my Internal USR ISA modem is not even supported, but FreeBSD > had had support for it for a long time now. :-( Please let me know what > you find out, and I'm VERY interested in your RPM - hope there will be a > straight tarball for us Slackware Dinosaurs too. :-)
I'll post ot at vger.timpanogas.org with the Ute-NWFS distribution. It will be freely downloadable. Having plug and play NT dial-in support would be very nice. SuSe has a pretty nice setup, but we have as many, if not more problems with their's vs. RedHat and ours.
Jeff
> > Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> > To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 1:36 AM > Subject: setting up pppd dial-in on linux > > > > > > > > Anyone out there a whiz at setting up a pppd dialin server? I am > > trying to put together an RPM for pppd dialin configurations > > that will support default Windows NT and Linux dial in clients > > without requiring the poor user to learn bash scripting, chat > > scripting, mgetty and inittab configuration, etc. The steps > > in setting this up are about as easy as going on a U.N. relief > > mission to equatorial Africa, and most customers who are > > "mere mortals" would give up about an hour into it. > > > > I am seeing massive problems with pppd dial-in and IP/IPX > > routing with problems that range from constant Oops, to > > the bug infested pppd daemon failing valid MD5 chap > > authentication. The HOW-TO's and man pages provide > > wonderful commentary on all the things about pppd > > that don't work, but it's not too helpful on getting > > it to work reliably. An NT dial-in server takes about > > 5 minutes to configure on W2K. Linux takes about 2 days, and > > won't stay up reliably. > > > > Who out there is an expert on Linux pppd that would like > > to help put together some easy configs for standard > > dial-in scenarios? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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