Re: (ASCEND) Ascend 4048 with UNIX dial-up: How to?

[Bob K <melange@yip.org>]

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Steve M. Fabac, Jr. wrote:

[snip]
> Problem: When I used cu to dial into the ISP I get the following:
> 
> 
> CONNECT 14400 LAPM COMPRESSED
> 
> 
> ** Ascend Pipeline Terminal Server **
> 
> 
> System Password:
> 
> System Password:
> 
> System Password:
> 
> NO CARRIER
> 
> I called the ISP's technical support line and they informed me that they
> are NT based.  The machine I am hitting is an Ascend 4048 and the mail
> host is "Radius NT" (Whatever that is).
> 
> The technician recommended that I "enable PAP" on my end but was totally
> confused with the idea of logging in and then starting ppp (as in is
> common on SCO: Login: nppp <CR> Password: whatever). The technician
> indicated that they has several UNIX clients with full-time ISDN
> connections and I asked him for phone numbers for the clients so that
> I could obtain information on their configurations. Since this was late
> on Thursday afternoon, he was unable to supply the information.
> 
> I suspect that the UNIX client's have a complimentary Ascend router at
> their end and the UNIX box knows nothing of the connection protocol,
> just talks TCP/IP to the router.
> 
> With the limited information presented above, does anyone have
> experience establishing an SCO UNIX ppp connection to an Ascend 4048?
> Can it be done?
[snip]

Well, this may not be all that helpful as I have no direct experience with
SCO's ppp, but what needs to be done is a PAP username & password needs to
be set in ppp; with FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE'es ppp, it's the set authname
<username> and set authkey <password> commands.  After the connection is
established, don't attempt to log in; rather, just start ppp on the line.
Again, with FreeBSD, the command is ~p to enter packet mode; there should
be analogous commands for SCO's ppp.

What should happen is that the Ascend should detect ppp frames coming in
and thus start negotiating a ppp connection.  Note that PAP authentication
is part of ppp negotiations.

Hopefully someone with direct SCO experience can give you some more
specific directions...

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