On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sarel J. Botha wrote:
|Okay, I've looked at the mgetty source and some simple getty with AutoPPP
|support who's source is on the net.
|
|Both use a system in which they check for these bytes in this order:
|PPP_FRAME
|PPP_STATION
|PPP_CONTROL
|PPP_LCP_HI
|PPP_LCP_LOW
|
|I'd just like to get this right...
|The client dials up, server answers, they connect.
|Server sends login: prompt.
|
|- If the client wants it just starts talking PPP, sending the above characters.
| The server detects PPP and fires off pppd and authentication is done using
| PAP, CHAP or MS-CHAP.
That's my understanding, whatever PPP authentication protocol is configured
in the AutoPPP line of the login.config file.
| OR
|
|- The client sends a username and password, server authenticates and fires
| off pppd.
I don't think so. I'd expect it to just present the login prompt for a
regular shell account login/password. No PPP started. But again I haven't
actually used mgetty with the AutoPPP compiled into it. And I'm adverse to
reading any more code than it takes to make a reasonable guess. :)
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