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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!news.uoregon.edu!raffles.technet.sg!nf1.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:14:03 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 39 Message-ID: <31D0B90B.7C42@cet.co.jp> References: <4p533b$6qm@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C5A3B1.616@cet.co.jp> <31C4F08A.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> <4q6gii$rsv@hops.entertain.com> <31CDFF29.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> <4qmbft$gnb@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31CFD720.1BB4@cet.co.jp> <4qpall$is5@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (WinNT; I) Lance Cavener wrote: > > Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote: > > >Lance Cavener wrote: > >> > >> Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote: > >> >It's only 20 lines of code for the ppp detect finite state machine. The author > >> >spent more time on other nice to have details. > >> > >> You know, it would be nice if we could get an address to exacty WHERE > >> this thing is! I spent about 2 hours searching for it on the hackers > >> mailing list, and I gave up.. > > >Apparently, there were about 4 different implementations done, but only one is > >publically accessible at the moment. > > >This implementation submitted via send-pr and you can get it by doing a > >query-pr@freebsd.org with a subject [--full 1019]. This version doesn't exec > >pppd directly, but instead always logins in as 'pppuser' when it detects PPP. > >pppuser is setup with pppd as the shell. You must use a pppd that supports > >PAP or CHAP. > > Do you know if its hard to get a copy of pppd which Linux uses and > replace the ppp program that currently comes with BSDI? I prefer using > that and mgetty.. FreeBSD's ppp handles chap and that would be easier to port than a Linux version. There's Linux emulation under FreeBSD but I haven't tried it. An alternative is to get MorningStar PPP. The author of this commercial implementation is the IETF Chairman of the PPP group. It's a damn good implementation and it works under BSDI/Solaris/UnixWare/SCO/etc. It has a lot of other interesting features such as packet filtering, tunneling, etc. If you don't want to fork out the $700 then your best bet is try to port the FreeBSD stuff. -mh