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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!rerf!news.csi.ad.jp!wnoc-kyo-news!wnoc-sfc-news!wnoc-tyo-news!news.imnet.ad.jp!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Chris Stenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD pppd <--> Win95 Dial-up Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:19:28 GMT Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 37 Sender: usenet@gnome.co.uk (Charlie Root) Message-ID: <DHEy4G.1Iq@gnome.co.uk> References: <478tqq$k7t@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hawk.gnome.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gnome.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Charles Anderson (cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : : Does anyone know what options one needs to configure in either pppd or : Win95 dial-up networking to get the two to talk? I'm trying to dial in : from Win95 into a BSD ISP, but haven't met with any luck. Win95 claims : the two systems could not negotiate a protcol. The ppp log on Win95 : shows Win95 rejecting every magic number that is offered. I've tried : it with both a fixed address and with the client expecting an address : from the BSD server, but neither one works. The Win95 stuff can : connect to other ISP's, so I think most/all of the SW should be : correctly loaded on the Win95 system. : : Any suggestions? : my method is to have a user like this on the FreeBSD box pjacs:*:202:20:Chris Stenton - PPP:/nonexistent:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin where /usr/local/bin/ppplogin is just #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:.:/usr/bin: /usr/sbin/pppd passive On the Win95 side use a fixed address; also make sure that Enable-software-compression is switched off in the Server Types dialogue box. Chris