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Win95 to Linux PPP



At 03:40 PM 7/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Having been a Win95 beta customer, I was most annoyed to find that Microsoft
>ripped out support for login chat during PPP initialization.  (They wanted
>to sell more NT servers, I guess :-|)
>
>Has anyone here configured a Linux box to authenticate PPP users without
>going through a login prompt?
>
>If you use the login prompt instead of PAP/CHAP, you wind up having to
>manually type the login name and password--Win95 doesn't have a way to
>automate this.
>
>-rich
>
check out these files

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial/ppp/pppsetup.readme
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial/ppp/pppsetup

they helps you to set up a script to do automatic dialing and login.

hso

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