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Configuring FreeBSD for dial-in service *
3 April 1999
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This article talks about how you can configure FreeBSD to accept incoming connections
over a modem (i.e. a dial-in service). This will be done via PPP. See also http://www.ssimicro.com/~jeremyc/ppp.html which I'm told is quite good. |
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Where to start
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| The first place I started was with the FreeBSD
Handbook. I went straight to the PPP and Slip section.
You should scroll down until you see Receiving incoming calls with ppp.
I also used Dialin
Service. I installed 3.2-RELEASE and mgetty+sendfax on both machines. |
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Where I stopped
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| Well, that was about it. I didn't continue. Then NutBoy on Undernet sent me the following. I have not tried this. Comments on this article will be appreciated. |
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NutBoy's article (wolfnet@wolfnet-irc.org)
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| I decided I'd try to set up my dual 450 box for dialin service, so when I was away or
at work I could dial in on my second line and connect to the Internet. I had
many many problems and this will show you what exactly to check. I started out with the dial-in section in the FreeBSD Handbook which ended up being semi-useless and outdated as I am running a 3.2-stable machine. What I ended up doing was:
I used getty, not mgetty. Add a new user whom you want to let use ppp. In this test circumstance, I used the user "ppp" with home being /home/ppp and shell being /etc/ppp/ppp-shell.
#!/bin/sh IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'` CALLEDAS="$IDENT" TTY=`tty` if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then IDENT=`basename $TTY` fi echo "PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY" echo "Starting PPP for $IDENT" exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT I then made 2 files in the ppp home directory: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 26 05:43 .hushlogin -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 26 05:45 .rhosts I then added a /etc/ppp/ppp.conf script: ttyd0: enable pap enable passwdauth set ifaddr 209.64.46.23 209.64.46.25 255.255.255.255 enable proxy This set the dialin with the IP 209.64.46.25. I then added a /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup addition: ttyd0: add 209.64.46.25 netmask 255.255.255.255 HISADDR I then made a ppp.secret addition (for use with PAP). If you aren't using PAP you will not need this: # Authname Authkey Peer's IP address ppp password 209.64.46.25 After that I checked /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab and enabled ttyd0 and made sure that a reasonable speed setting was there and placed. After all this I was ready to try.....Nothing....the box wouldn't answer the phone. |
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Two days later:
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| I realized that my modem isn't ansering and there is no setup utility to change the
nvram. There are also no jumpers to make it autoanswer. Off to the store.
I picked up a new modem that has config jumpers. I changed it to serial port
1 and to autoanswer. Booted up.... Perfect, answers the connection and everything is fine. |