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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.hol.gr!news From: sergios@beryl.kapatel.gr (Sergios) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bsd, ppp, chat, a lamers question Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 15:54:12 GMT Organization: . Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32513dd2.15256087@news.hol.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp34.hol.gr Summary: . X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 I have been using linux for 2 years. now I switched to freebsd, 2.1.5 walnut creek cdrom august 1996. everything works, I am amazed with the performance of freebsd and my experience from linux and sunos at work has been very helpfull. but a lamers question ;: I see that bsd uses the ppp script and chat to connect the tun0 device to an isp. I have been very comfortable with linux : I could dial with minicom, quit-but-no-hangup and run a ppp-on script which then started the pppd daemon. I never used chat in linux [and now I regret it]. Now the problem is : it seems i cannot use the chat correctly since my provider is actually a BBS and one must pass a lot of ansi screens and other shit* stuff before the ppp interface starts. with minicom/pppd in linux it was quite easy. can the ppp script in bsd be configured like this? do I miss the obvious? on a second account I have with some other provider the login sequece goes like this : connection is made user presses carriage return isp says: Username: user enters username ips says: password: user enters password the ppp starts. how do I make this a login sequence with chat? I am very confused. Freebsd without a ppp connection for me is like fish without water..... please cc: to sergios@prometheus.hol.gr if possible....