Harry,
I'm not a wizard, just an ordainary Arachne user. While I'm duly
appreciative of technical expertise, it's not necessary to know
anything about the protocols in order to get Arachne connected.
The easiest way is to let Arachne do the work. It's already set
up for PAP/CHAP logins. PAP/CHAP is a way to automate PPP logins
to an ISP.
The traditonal way to login was through "terminal mode". This is
like calling a BBS. You manually enter your username and password
at the prompts and then should see "garbage characters" on the
screen. These are PPP packets. Hitting F7 or Alt-p would then
switch you into PPP mode and connect you.
Arachne can use a script to automate this process for you. Scripts
can be confusing for ordainary users like myself. PAP/CHAP does
away with the need for manual or scripted logins and handles the
process automatically.
You dial in to the ISP and a dialog is initiated that passes your
username and password to the ISP and then establishes the PPP
connection for you.
Arachne can be set up to login to an ISP in any of these three ways.
Most ISP's now accept PAP/CHAP logins. Many also accept manual and
scripted logins. The automatic PAP/CHAP login is the easiest. The
method Steve described will set up Arachne for an automatic login.
No editing of Arachne.cfg or script creation is required.
Go to the Options page by touching the "O" hotkey, click on TCP/IP
setup, click on Internal PPP setup, fill in the blanks with your
username and password. Make sure that the "Show Terminal" and "Try
Following Script" boxes are * not * checked. Make sure the phone number
and DNS numbers are filled in and correct. Click on save.
That should do it. There are other ways to accomplish this
task. You can edit arachne.cfg manually or you can use the installation
wizard.
Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:06:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Arachne Wizards:
> I'm still trying to link to my ISP and I (apparently) am still
> getting trapped in BBS mode. The following is a message from Steve
> Fox, my ISP Sysop, who has been very patient and understanding.
> Right now, I think I'm trying to use PPP to link to my ISP,
> but Steve suggests "PAP", "CHAP" and "MS-CHAP". Can any of you
> tell me how I might set up Arachne to use these protocols -- that
> is, assuming that PPP does not?
> I'm a long-time programmer, having written mostly FORTRAN
> number crunching programs (although my TIDY and INDEX programs
> which processed FORTRAN programs were pretty popular, too), but
> as to Internet protocols, I'm a complete novice. For example, I
> can only guess at the ground rules implied in writing or updating
> ARACHNE.CFG. Is there any documentation available?
> Once again, I'm attaching my current ARACHNE.CFG file (with
> my password changed) to this message. Help from you Wizards will
> be very gratefully appreciated. I really want to get Arachne up
> and running before my "drop-dead" date of February 16th.
> By the way, this message, like all of my previous messages,
> originates via my ISP's BBS mode.
> Best Wishes to You All!
> Harry.
> ---------- Sysop Message Follows ----------
> From: IN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Harry Murphy
> Re: Login procedure?
> Harry,
> I know I've mentioned "PAP", "CHAP", and "MS-CHAP" several times.
> These are protocols that our system understands and which it
> tells every connection that it supports as soon as they connect.
> If it does not receive a response, then it fails back into
> offering a stream connection to the BBS. I'm truly amazed that
> the Arachne dialer doesn't support these very standard and widely
> proliferated protocols. Even Trumpet 3.x, which was built several
> years ago, supports PAP. PAP is supported on Linux, on the Mac,
> and on almost every computer out there, from laptops to
> mainframes. PAP is almost as widely supported as PPP.
> Did you try either of the other two dialers I found for you or
> did they not support PAP/CHAP/MS-CHAP as well?
> The only thing I can think of for scripting is similar to what we
> used for early versions of Trumpet (prior to PAP support). For
> that, we looked for a specific set of characters ("BBS:") and
> then told Trumpet that it was on-line. From there, Trumpet went
> into PPP mode and finished the login. Even if it doesn't support
> PAP, the Arachne dialer should be at least as smart as the
> Trumpet dialer for Windows 3.1. At the time, Windows was barely a
> graphical shell on top of DOS, so Trumpet had to deal with the
> modem and the comm ports directly, something that you'd have to
> do in DOS.
> Alas, I don't even have DOS on any machines here or I'd try
> installing Arachne myself.
> By the way, the system you're dialing into is probably the most
> commonly available dial-in system for Internet use in the world.
> It's a 3Com/US Robotics Total Control system. In other words, if
> Arachne is looking for something specific from our system, then
> it _should_ find it from the system here <g>.
> --- Steve
> to: IN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: IN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan
USA
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