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Re: Unique PPP Connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Tue Oct 29 04:49:31 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:45:54 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft,com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3275B41F.368D@hopper.unh.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Hans Johnson wrote:
> I would love to try RH4.0 but don't want to invest the time/money if
> I can't get it to work with my present connection.
> I am at the University of New Hampshire and they set it up like this:
> Connect through a serial port (25 or 9pin -I am using 25) to the server.
> The server is always 'listening' it has an autoprotocol detect going
> Or I can send 4 carriage returns and get a prompt at which I can
> enter garbage then a <cr> then enter in a start ppp command and a <cr>
> Presently I use what I've been given - a slightly modified version
> of trumpet winsock. I can't get it to work with Win95 cause there is
> no 'null-modem' modem driver.... I have been trying to use a 'fake'
> modem .inf file to trick Dial-Up Networking into thinking it is a
> modem but with no success as of yet - but that is another ball of wax.
Yes. If you can do it with Trumpet Winsock, you can do it with chat.
See 'man chat' and also the relevant sections of the PPP howto (section
15, particularly 15.4).
Robert Hart iweft@ipax.com.au
Voice: +61 (0)3 9735 3586
InterWeft, 35 Summit Road, Lilydale, Victoria 3140, Australia
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