[ale] Any PPP-versed people here?

[Christopher Fowler]

Even mgetty does this.

If I dial in to any of my devices I get a login.  If I instruct ppp to
do it than ppp must use PAP or CHAP.  Mgetty sees the first ppp packet
and will skip the login prompt and exec() pppd instead.  It is a very
nice solution and allows me to dial in to get either a tty with minicom
or use Winbloze DUN to get a ppp connection.  




On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 00:45 -0400, Jason Fritcher wrote:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > Pretty positive:  If I dialup via minicom, it expects a typed login/pass
> > before starting PPP on its end.  It is Level 3's pool in ATL, if that
> > helps, and I expect that their pools everywhere else are pretty much the
> > same.
> 
> That is standard behaviour for when people do dial in with something like minicom or use the login window in Dial-Up Networking. I would be highly surprised if L3's modem pools did not recognize using pppd without a plaintext chat login.
> 
> Here is a page that contains a chat script to do the login for you. Looks like it contains what you need.
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/x1188.html
> 
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