Re: tlug: diald (was: mouse fixed; now what about email)

[Kei Furuuchi <kfur@example.com>]

Eric Standlee and Family writes:
 > Yuck. And the info pages on the server are only in Japanese and don't
 > mention TCP/IP and ppp through anything but Win95, and Mac.
 > 
 > Any infoweb users who can give me a hint?

If you can dial-up connect to your ISP thru Win95, you can set a
feature of recording a log file in dial-up adapter in network. It
gives you a log file called "ppplog.txt" in Windows directory.
It reads like this:
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - Remote access driver log opened.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - Installable CP VxD SPAP     is loaded
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - Server type is  PPP (Point to Point Protocol).
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol 80fd (CCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol 803f (NBFCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol 8021 (IPCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol 802b (IPXCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol c029 (CallbackCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol c027 (no description) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol c023 (PAP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol c223 (CHAP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - FSA : Adding Control Protocol c021 (LCP) to control protocol chain.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - LCP : Callback negotiation enabled.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:12.07 - LCP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received and accepted MRU of 1524.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received and accepted ACCM of a0000.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received and accepted authentication protocol c023 (PAP).
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received and accepted protocol field compression option.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received and accepted address+control field compression option.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Rejecting unknown option 19.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.23 - LCP : Received configure reject for callback control protocol option.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.34 - LCP : Received and accepted MRU of 1524.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.34 - LCP : Received and accepted ACCM of a0000.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.34 - LCP : Received and accepted authentication protocol c023 (PAP).
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.34 - LCP : Received and accepted protocol field compression option.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.34 - LCP : Received and accepted address+control field compression option.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.38 - LCP : Layer up.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.38 - PAP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - PAP : Login was successful.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - PAP : Layer up.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - IPXCP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - IPCP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - IPCP : IP address is 0.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - NBFCP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.67 - CCP : Layer started.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.89 - FSA : Received protocol reject for control protocol 802b.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.89 - IPXCP : Layer finished.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.94 - FSA : Received protocol reject for control protocol 803f.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.94 - NBFCP : Layer finished.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:15.97 - IPCP : Received and accepted IP address of cf9b1913.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:16.05 - IPCP : Changing IP address from 0 to cf9b1974.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:16.05 - IPCP : Accepting primary DNS cf9b1901.
 >>>  05-31-1998 09:26:16.18 - IPCP : Layer up.

In this, you can clearly see that PAP authorization is used. It is
requested by ISP and complied by Win95. If ISP uses shell type login,
ISP does not require PAP nor CHAP authorization in ppp, instead gives
s user two similiar usernames to differenciate between telnet account
and ppp account. Win95 just bring up the terminal for a user to
manually log in for shell type account, if a user set up so
accordingly instead of setting a password in dial-up connection dialog 
window. /usr/sbin/diald can automate this process using 'connect "sh
connect"' command. I don't know how to automate shell login in Win95. 
Also if I don't explicitly negatively set PAP nor CHAP option in
/etc/ppp/options and set passwords in both /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets files, /usr/sbin/pppd will accomodate whatever
ISP requires of authorization. So it is automated too.

So it is my conclusion that if I can set up dial-up connection in
Win95, I can set up dial-up connection in Linux too. 

Also I can set up log file in dial-up connection. It is called
"modemlog.txt" in Windows directory. It shows what is your
initializing codes to your modem. You can borrow the codes and put
them into /etc/diald/connect script.

I assumed using diald and debian because those are my favoriates
according to my situation and currently what I am using.

Regards,
Kei.
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