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Re: Experience: Adaptive answer PAP PPP, PROLiNK 1428LE



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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de wrote:

> Some connection protocols (e.g. HDLC framing over ISDN)
> doesn't allow a "normal" character based dial-in/login.
> I'm using the same (starting pppd directly from faxgetty(1M))
> for my ZyXEL 2864I ISDN port. It works fine and using PAP or
> CHAP from pppd is also much faster compared with login and
> launching pppd from a login-script. If I pick-up an ISDN call
> with faxgetty(1M) and directly start the pppd the TCP/IP
> stack is up in one or two seconds (at the remote side is
> a cisco 2503 which wants to use CHAP for authentication).

Fair enough. I'd been thinking along the UNIX side, where a simple
shell acces provides quite enough for most purposes and permits access
if the PPP server is disabled or unavailable.

Is this frequent enough to make it an option for HylaFAX
configurations, say a faxgetty flag?

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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