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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Plans for CHAP/PPP in BSDI? Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:18:46 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4qpall$is5@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> 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> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts03c16.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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.. Lance