Re: Programming external modems with MSX

[Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha]

> > Get pppd code and read the file MSCHAP80.
> Wouldn't know where.

        Any Linux site. pppd is GPL, if I'm not wrong. I got the source on
my Slackware CD.

> > Send a PAP auth request. If they deny it, shutdown the line. :)
> NO! Servers supporting it will also deny it. Instead, reply (as said) with a
> NAK to the PPP Configuration_Request. And in fact this is correct. If an
> authentication protocol should be used is pretty much the choice of the ISP.

        If the ISP receives a PAP AuthReq, and don't like it, it should
NAK it, not REJ it...

> So if no Auth_Prot_Req is sent, no authorization is required at all, and if
> it is, you can incidate the desired protocol over the standard one.

        Hum... Ok... It's not difficult.

> > Hehehehehe... C is cool... :)
> Assembly is fast.

        I know. But maintaining an assembly code is hard.
        I am a Z80 assembly programmer.


Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha               ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP   
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* I'll never forget the first time I ran Windows, but I'm trying! *


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