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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!vixie!gw.home.vix.com!mellon From: mellon@fugue.com (Ted Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Mgetty (replacement) Date: 10 Sep 1996 01:36:47 GMT Organization: Barefoot Consulting Lines: 29 Message-ID: <MELLON.96Sep9183647@toccata.fugue.com> References: <322E6DC5.24B@horizon.hit.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: toccata.fugue.com In-reply-to: edragon@horizon.hit.net's message of Sat, 07 Sep 1996 01:30:20 -0500 On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 01:05:57 -0500, edragon@horizon.hit.net wrote: >Could anybody point me to info about mgetty for >BSD/OS 2.0.1 ? There is actually a replacement for mgetty which may be more suitable to modern needs. A contract I was doing for Vixie Enterprises required something mgetty-like, but when I suggested just porting mgetty, Paul (the author) encouraged me to just start over - he claims mgetty was originally written for Ultrix 1.0, and its time has passed. The replacement is called modemd. It's freely available, and can be had from ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/modemd/modemd-960909.tar.gz. I just generated a new release which includes some handy new features, including the ability to have incoming modem lines automatically detect incoming PPP or interactive logins and do the right thing. Of course, as somebody else in this thread mentioned, you need to be able to do PAP or CHAP in order for this feature to be useful. In addition to the original mgetty functionality, modemd also provides the ability to maintain pools of outgoing modems through the mpoold daemon, as well as many more bells and whistles for incoming calls. _MelloN_ -- Ted Lemon mellon@fugue.com +1 415 282 3447