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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Connect To FreeBSD from Internet Explorer 3.0 ? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:52:28 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <325E7B4C.6456@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bbb598$cc4745a0$036e6dce@karla> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) dave dyer wrote: > > I built a kernel that supports pppd. Then i setup a user id that uses a > login script > to start a pppd session. I setup up Internet Explorer on Windows95 to dial > into > my freeBSD system. IE asks for my user ID and password, i use the user id > and password for the freeBSD system. FreeBSD answers the phone and there > is some conversation between IE 3 and FreeBSD. After a while, IE reports > the > host has refused the connection. Occasionally, FreeBSD reports 3 or 4 > failed > login attempts (sometimes it does not report this). I'm lost, does anyone > have > any ideas on this. You have me *very* confused. IE is M$'s Web browser; I was not aware that it would perform a dial-up PPP login, and would not have expected it to do so. The dialing and session setup should be done by the TCP/IP stack handler, not by an individual application. I would tend to guess that IE is trying to access a Web page while your FreeBSD box is trying to make a PPP connection. If so, there's no point of communication between the two. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |