Hello Russell I am busy testing a portslave server to replace my old ancient Cyclades-Y based terminal server.
The old one ran mgetty and a pppd patched for radius authentication via the radius client library. The patches have not been updated since pppd version 2.2 and the old machine still has a 2.0 series kernel. I am using portslave 2000-12-24 which I built on potato from a deb source archive a while back and kernel 2.2.19. It seems to work and we will go "live" in a few days. Do you know of a "potato" deb for the latest version, or if you have suggestions on how to get it to compile on potato, please let me know. I ran into problems with an unsupported "debhelper" version. Upgrading debhelper would require upgrading perl, by the time I have done that it wont look like a "potato" system any more. I am also not too sure if I agree with your comments on portslave doing everything than mgetty can do. I had a big battle to get portslave to work with my old modem to modem uucp clients. Regards Ian On 5 Oct 2001, at 16:02, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:34, Cathedral wrote: > > I`m configuring one board cylades cyclom-y and got all the board configured > > but now i can`t set the modens to work, i`ve configured the radius-client > > to authenticat on my radius-server and start pppd automaticaly. > > I have put a line like that on inittab > > > > > > C0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I ' AT OK AT&W0' ttyC0 (also with /dev/) > > 9600 -l path_to_radlogin/radlogin > > The modem answers the line but my win98 clients doesn`t connect do nybody > > can help me about that,i`m getting really desperated. > > That will only work for terminal authentication (the default for Windows is > AutoPPP). Also are you sure that your "-I" parameter is correct? The > documentation for the version of getty that I use doesn't indicate support > for chat scripts. > > Why not use Portslave? It answers the phone and supports full chatscript > functionality for modem configuration etc. Portslave presents a "login:" > prompt and authenticates with a RADIUS server. It also recognises AutoPPP > sequences and runs pppd with a special module so that the pppd will talk to > the RADIUS server for authentication. When the connection is finished the > details of bytes and packets transferred will be logged to the RADIUS server. > > Also Portslave supports a variety of options for running ssh, telnet, or > rlogin connections based on what the RADIUS server specifies. > > > Anything that can be done by getty, mgetty, radius-client, etc can be done > better by Portslave. > > Another thing, currently there are two active Portslave developers, me and a > Cyclades employee (the Cyclades TS4000 type boxes run a derivative of my > 2000-12-25 release). Run the latest Portslave from unstable and you get most > of the features of the high-end Cyclades terminal server boxes, plus some > features that haven't yet been copied into the Cyclades tree. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 +21 683-1388 Fax: +27 +21 64-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------
