Portslave, PPP and SLIP
Hi People, I have an ISDN server, it works with portslave to accept incoming calls with PPP protocol, it works fine, but recently I need to implement under the same server a service to accept SLIP connections too... I rebuild the kernel to accept SLIP protocol, it seems to be work, but I have seen, when finished a incoming call using SLIP protocol, the sl[0-9]+ interface remains up... it does not busy the line or modem but, remains up. Maybe somebody knows something about a correct configuration in portslave to accept SLIP and PPP connections? maybe an option for keepalive? Thanks a lot! -- nmag only gnupg 0xA024A03F [pgp.mit.edu] && GNU/Linux Registered User #312624 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with Portslave
Title: RE: Problem with Portslave Hi Russel, yes, as you can imagine, I have a Cyclades TS1000 and it works very fine, but I love linux too do you have a beta or some patch that enables that feature?? Javier. -Mensaje original- De: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes, 27 de noviembre de 2001 18:43 Para: Javier Castillo Alcibar; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: Problem with Portslave On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote: > I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( > > I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my > windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 > like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a > console server, is it?. The functionality you are after is not yet in my Portslave tree (actually most of the code is there but it's not tested). Soon it should have that functionality (as is in the Cyclades TS family) and more. -- 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
Re: Problem with Portslave
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote: > I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( > > I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my > windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 > like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a > console server, is it?. The functionality you are after is not yet in my Portslave tree (actually most of the code is there but it's not tested). Soon it should have that functionality (as is in the Cyclades TS family) and more. -- 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
Problem with Portslave
Title: Problem with Portslave Hi there, I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a console server, is it?. This is my config: all.loc_host 10.213.1.18 all.locallogins yes all.syslog all.facility 2 all.filterdir /etc/portslave/filters all.debug 1 all.authtype none all.radnullpass yes all.authhost1 localhost all.accthost1 localhost all.radtimeout 3 all.secret testing123 all.protocol socket_server all.rem_host 192.168.42.65+ all.netmask 255.255.255.255 all.mtu 1500 all.socket_port 7001+ all.issue \n\ Portslave Internet Services\n\ \n\ Welcome to terminal server %h port S%p \n\ \n all.syswtmp yes all.porttype async all.speed 9600 all.initchat TIMEOUT 10 \ ABORT "NO CARRIER" \ ABORT VOICE \ "" \d\l\dATZ \ OK\r\n-ATZ-OK\r\n "\c" \ TIMEOUT 3600 \ RING "\c" \ STATUS Incoming %p:I.HANDSHAKE \ "" ATA \ TIMEOUT 75 \ CONNECT@ "\c" \ STATUS Connected %p:I.HANDSHAKE all.flow none all.dcd yes all.autoppp proxyarp modem asyncmap 0 %i: \ noipx noccp login auth require-pap refuse-chap \ mtu %t mru %t \ ms-dns 192.168.1.1 ms-dns 192.168.1.2 \ plugin /usr/lib/libpsr.so all.pppopt proxyarp modem asyncmap 0 %i:%j \ noipx noccp \ mtu %t mru %t \ netmask %m idle %I maxconnect %T \ ms-dns 192.168.1.1 ms-dns 192.168.1.2 \ plugin /usr/lib/libpsr.so s1.tty ttyCM31 s1.authtype none when I do a telnet, I get this message: telnet localhost 7001 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. portslave: standard input is not a tty Connection closed by foreign host. Any ideas?? thx in advance. Javier. Javier Castillo Alcíbar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alhambra Systems, S.A. - www.alhsys.com c/Albasanz 14, 28037 Madrid Tel.: +34 91 787 23 00 Fax.: +34 91 787 23 01
RE: Problem with Portslave
Title: RE: Problem with Portslave Hi Russel, yes, as you can imagine, I have a Cyclades TS1000 and it works very fine, but I love linux too do you have a beta or some patch that enables that feature?? Javier. -Mensaje original- De: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes, 27 de noviembre de 2001 18:43 Para: Javier Castillo Alcibar; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Problem with Portslave On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote: > I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( > > I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my > windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 > like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a > console server, is it?. The functionality you are after is not yet in my Portslave tree (actually most of the code is there but it's not tested). Soon it should have that functionality (as is in the Cyclades TS family) and more. -- 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
Re: Problem with Portslave
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:29, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote: > I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( > > I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my > windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 > like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a > console server, is it?. The functionality you are after is not yet in my Portslave tree (actually most of the code is there but it's not tested). Soon it should have that functionality (as is in the Cyclades TS family) and more. -- 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]
Problem with Portslave
Title: Problem with Portslave Hi there, I am new with portslave, and I cannot resolv a problem :(( I have a Cyclades PC400 pri isdn card. I want to telnet from my windows machine to my linux+portslave box, and get the prompt of my pc400 like if I use "cu -l /dev/ttyCM31", that is, configure portslave like a console server, is it?. This is my config: all.loc_host 10.213.1.18 all.locallogins yes all.syslog all.facility 2 all.filterdir /etc/portslave/filters all.debug 1 all.authtype none all.radnullpass yes all.authhost1 localhost all.accthost1 localhost all.radtimeout 3 all.secret testing123 all.protocol socket_server all.rem_host 192.168.42.65+ all.netmask 255.255.255.255 all.mtu 1500 all.socket_port 7001+ all.issue \n\ Portslave Internet Services\n\ \n\ Welcome to terminal server %h port S%p \n\ \n all.syswtmp yes all.porttype async all.speed 9600 all.initchat TIMEOUT 10 \ ABORT "NO CARRIER" \ ABORT VOICE \ "" \d\l\dATZ \ OK\r\n-ATZ-OK\r\n "\c" \ TIMEOUT 3600 \ RING "\c" \ STATUS Incoming %p:I.HANDSHAKE \ "" ATA \ TIMEOUT 75 \ CONNECT@ "\c" \ STATUS Connected %p:I.HANDSHAKE all.flow none all.dcd yes all.autoppp proxyarp modem asyncmap 0 %i: \ noipx noccp login auth require-pap refuse-chap \ mtu %t mru %t \ ms-dns 192.168.1.1 ms-dns 192.168.1.2 \ plugin /usr/lib/libpsr.so all.pppopt proxyarp modem asyncmap 0 %i:%j \ noipx noccp \ mtu %t mru %t \ netmask %m idle %I maxconnect %T \ ms-dns 192.168.1.1 ms-dns 192.168.1.2 \ plugin /usr/lib/libpsr.so s1.tty ttyCM31 s1.authtype none when I do a telnet, I get this message: telnet localhost 7001 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. portslave: standard input is not a tty Connection closed by foreign host. Any ideas?? thx in advance. Javier. Javier Castillo Alcíbar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alhambra Systems, S.A. - www.alhsys.com c/Albasanz 14, 28037 Madrid Tel.: +34 91 787 23 00 Fax.: +34 91 787 23 01
Re: portslave for potato
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05, I. Forbes wrote: > Hello Russell > > On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to > > test it though... Also it is a new version... > > I think I have found a bug with this package. > > We had a major power outage and everything went down. The > portslave machine came back up before the radius server. > > It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and > endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following > errors scrolling very rapidly. > > t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding > Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 15 times > Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S26]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding This bug is fixed in version 2001.10.26 in unstable and there's a potato package at the same place. -- 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
Re: portslave for potato
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05, I. Forbes wrote: > Hello Russell > > On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to > > test it though... Also it is a new version... > > I think I have found a bug with this package. > > We had a major power outage and everything went down. The > portslave machine came back up before the radius server. > > It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and > endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following > errors scrolling very rapidly. > > t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding > Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 15 times > Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S26]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding This bug is fixed in version 2001.10.26 in unstable and there's a potato package at the same place. -- 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]
Re: portslave
Quoting "I. Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows > dial-out like mgetty On a slight tangent, I like both Hylafax and features of mgetty. Can both play together on the same port instead of using faxgetty? bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz /) [EMAIL PROTECTED]beekeeper -8|||} "Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin." --Dorothy Linux geek \)
Re: portslave
Quoting "I. Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows > dial-out like mgetty On a slight tangent, I like both Hylafax and features of mgetty. Can both play together on the same port instead of using faxgetty? bob -- bob billsonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz /) [EMAIL PROTECTED]beekeeper -8|||} "Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin." --Dorothy Linux geek \) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 15 Oct 2001, at 17:58, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18, I. Forbes wrote: > > Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave > > how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being > > voice or fax as opposed to data calls. > Sure, I could add that. Write a spec. This is an opertunity I can't pass up. Give me a week or so to have a good look through mgetty, faxgetty etc. > > Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? > > There is in the latest version which was uploaded to Debian and Sourceforge > last night. Thanks, I will have a look. > It shouldn't be that difficult to write some code that can recognise FAX as > well as PPP, they are very different... The fax and data differentiation is handled by the modem - they have different handshake sequences. If the phone line is noisy and/or the modem firmware is a bit buggy, the modem does not correctly identify the handshake. If the modem gets this wrong, then the "getty" program can't help. This does not mean that we should not put the facility into portslave. Regards Ian - 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 -
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 15 Oct 2001, at 17:58, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18, I. Forbes wrote: > > Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave > > how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being > > voice or fax as opposed to data calls. > Sure, I could add that. Write a spec. This is an opertunity I can't pass up. Give me a week or so to have a good look through mgetty, faxgetty etc. > > Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? > > There is in the latest version which was uploaded to Debian and Sourceforge > last night. Thanks, I will have a look. > It shouldn't be that difficult to write some code that can recognise FAX as > well as PPP, they are very different... The fax and data differentiation is handled by the modem - they have different handshake sequences. If the phone line is noisy and/or the modem firmware is a bit buggy, the modem does not correctly identify the handshake. If the modem gets this wrong, then the "getty" program can't help. This does not mean that we should not put the facility into portslave. Regards Ian - 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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18, I. Forbes wrote: > > I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass > > the port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to > > take the port. > > I think the answer lies in by-passing radius. If we had a facility like > mgetty's "login.config" file which could decide whether to run a > radius based program, or a local one instead, the flexibility would > go up by an order of magnitude. It would also make hacks like my > UUCP one work. > > Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave > how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being > voice or fax as opposed to data calls. Sure, I could add that. Write a spec. > > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > > > radius authentication and accounting? > > > > Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with > > appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. > > Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? There is in the latest version which was uploaded to Debian and Sourceforge last night. > In my opinion Hylfax is by far the best fax package. It allows Class > 1 or Class 2 modems to be used. Mgetty's fax facility only allows > Class 2. As over 90% of domestic quality 56k modems either have > no Class 2 support, or Class 2 that is so buggy that it is not worth > using this is a big plus factor. (Almost all Windows faxing software > uses Class 1 mode.) > > Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows > dial-out like mgetty, but it also communicates with the hylafax > daemon to report on the status of the modem. It has facilities for > calling alternate programs for voice and data calls. I am not sure if > it can detect ppp frames. It shouldn't be that difficult to write some code that can recognise FAX as well as PPP, they are very different... -- 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
Re: portslave
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18, I. Forbes wrote: > > I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass > > the port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to > > take the port. > > I think the answer lies in by-passing radius. If we had a facility like > mgetty's "login.config" file which could decide whether to run a > radius based program, or a local one instead, the flexibility would > go up by an order of magnitude. It would also make hacks like my > UUCP one work. > > Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave > how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being > voice or fax as opposed to data calls. Sure, I could add that. Write a spec. > > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > > > radius authentication and accounting? > > > > Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with > > appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. > > Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? There is in the latest version which was uploaded to Debian and Sourceforge last night. > In my opinion Hylfax is by far the best fax package. It allows Class > 1 or Class 2 modems to be used. Mgetty's fax facility only allows > Class 2. As over 90% of domestic quality 56k modems either have > no Class 2 support, or Class 2 that is so buggy that it is not worth > using this is a big plus factor. (Almost all Windows faxing software > uses Class 1 mode.) > > Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows > dial-out like mgetty, but it also communicates with the hylafax > daemon to report on the status of the modem. It has facilities for > calling alternate programs for voice and data calls. I am not sure if > it can detect ppp frames. It shouldn't be that difficult to write some code that can recognise FAX as well as PPP, they are very different... -- 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]
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 13 Oct 2001, at 19:14, Russell Coker wrote: > I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass the > port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to take the > port. I think the answer lies in by-passing radius. If we had a facility like mgetty's "login.config" file which could decide whether to run a radius based program, or a local one instead, the flexibility would go up by an order of magnitude. It would also make hacks like my UUCP one work. Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being voice or fax as opposed to data calls. > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > > radius authentication and accounting? > Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with > appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? > > It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if > > we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax > > package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package > > I've been thinking of doing that. However I have no fax hardware. If > someone suggests which code I should use as a fax code base and is prepared > to test it for me then I'll add fax support to Portslave. In my opinion Hylfax is by far the best fax package. It allows Class 1 or Class 2 modems to be used. Mgetty's fax facility only allows Class 2. As over 90% of domestic quality 56k modems either have no Class 2 support, or Class 2 that is so buggy that it is not worth using this is a big plus factor. (Almost all Windows faxing software uses Class 1 mode.) Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows dial-out like mgetty, but it also communicates with the hylafax daemon to report on the status of the modem. It has facilities for calling alternate programs for voice and data calls. I am not sure if it can detect ppp frames. However the weak link is normally with the modems detection of the type of the incoming call (voice, fax or data), which is not very reliable. I am not sure if Class 1 modems can do this at all. On commercial sites, I normally lock modems taking incoming fax calls into "fax only" mode to guarantee satisfactory performance. Faxgetty has a few features to try and work around this limitation. A few other issues to consider: - What about call-back, is there any provision for this in portslave? - Is anybody familiar with isdnutils? How does that handle all the options of incoming calls? - Can isdnutils handle radius authentication, filters, assigned IP's etc? (Maybe it could share the radius plug in?) Regards Ian - 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 -
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 13 Oct 2001, at 19:14, Russell Coker wrote: > I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass the > port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to take the > port. I think the answer lies in by-passing radius. If we had a facility like mgetty's "login.config" file which could decide whether to run a radius based program, or a local one instead, the flexibility would go up by an order of magnitude. It would also make hacks like my UUCP one work. Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being voice or fax as opposed to data calls. > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > > radius authentication and accounting? > Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with > appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? > > It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if > > we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax > > package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package > > I've been thinking of doing that. However I have no fax hardware. If > someone suggests which code I should use as a fax code base and is prepared > to test it for me then I'll add fax support to Portslave. In my opinion Hylfax is by far the best fax package. It allows Class 1 or Class 2 modems to be used. Mgetty's fax facility only allows Class 2. As over 90% of domestic quality 56k modems either have no Class 2 support, or Class 2 that is so buggy that it is not worth using this is a big plus factor. (Almost all Windows faxing software uses Class 1 mode.) Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows dial-out like mgetty, but it also communicates with the hylafax daemon to report on the status of the modem. It has facilities for calling alternate programs for voice and data calls. I am not sure if it can detect ppp frames. However the weak link is normally with the modems detection of the type of the incoming call (voice, fax or data), which is not very reliable. I am not sure if Class 1 modems can do this at all. On commercial sites, I normally lock modems taking incoming fax calls into "fax only" mode to guarantee satisfactory performance. Faxgetty has a few features to try and work around this limitation. A few other issues to consider: - What about call-back, is there any provision for this in portslave? - Is anybody familiar with isdnutils? How does that handle all the options of incoming calls? - Can isdnutils handle radius authentication, filters, assigned IP's etc? (Maybe it could share the radius plug in?) Regards Ian - 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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:32, I. Forbes wrote: > > Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the > > main ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along > > with the Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). > > Thanks, I am looking forward to that. > > How does portslave work with pppd, and which versions of pppd > (patched or unpatched) do you need for kernel 2.2 (which I am still > running) and kernel 2.4 (which will be the next upgrade) Portslave is designed to work with pppd 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 (I recommend 2.4.1). With the latest package in unstable it uses the standard Debian pppd to save disk space. In other situations it has it's own pppd binary. > > Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the > > current version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. > > With mgetty I had a line in my mgetty (on one line): > > U* uucp@ /usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/sbin/uucico -l -u @ > > The uucp clients were not in the radius server at all. This started a > session on our uucp server which did the authentication. > > Now I have in pslave.conf > > conf.ssh/etc/portslave/scripts/ssh-script > > And the file referenced above looks like this (mind the line wrap): > > #! /bin/bash > # > su uucp -c "/usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/sbin/uucico -x3 -u $LOGNAME" > > I have now added all my uucp accounts to radius, with the following > settings: > > User-Service-Type = Login-User, > Login-Service = Ssh A neat hack. However if you can give me a detailed suggestion about a good generic way of doing this sort of thing then I'd be happy to implement it. > Another comment. Portslave locks the serial port. With mgetty it is > still posible to use the port for dialing out, and even for faxing. So > with the a small multipurpose installations, mgetty may have > advantages over portslave. I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass the port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to take the port. > > Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other > > than PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to > > solve now than a year ago! > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > radius authentication and accounting? Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. > It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if > we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax > package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package I've been thinking of doing that. However I have no fax hardware. If someone suggests which code I should use as a fax code base and is prepared to test it for me then I'll add fax support to Portslave. -- 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
Re: Fwd: Re: portslave
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 01:14, Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld wrote: > 1 - Where can i find documentation about configuring portslave? I`m > some lost about it and can`t imagine how to do that( i`ve tried to work on > the samples that came along with the program but didn`t get that to really > work). The usual ways: man portslave man pslave.conf zless /usr/share/doc/portslave/* > 2 - This is not very important , i have downloaded the source of the > program from sourcefourge but i can`t compile because of ppp , well where > can i find the pppd source so i can compile it ??? It's on Sourceforge. -- 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
Re: Portslave
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:14, Cathedral wrote: > Where can i find documentation to configure portslave, i have installed a > portslave from unstable and i`m not getting a way to configure that. Run "dpkg -L portslave | grep etc" and you'll see a list of config files, you'll notice that the main config file is named "pslave.conf". Run "man pslave.conf" and you'll see all the documentation. Also run "man portslave" for the documentation on the main program. -- 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
Re: portslave for potato
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05, I. Forbes wrote: > > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to > > test it though... Also it is a new version... > > I think I have found a bug with this package. > > We had a major power outage and everything went down. The > portslave machine came back up before the radius server. > > It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and > endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following > errors scrolling very rapidly. > > t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding Thanks for the bug report, I know the likely cause. As a work-around if you make the secondary RADIUS server the same as the primary it should all be fine. I am going to change this anyway to allow for an arbitary number of RADIUS servers. -- 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
Re: portslave
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:32, I. Forbes wrote: > > Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the > > main ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along > > with the Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). > > Thanks, I am looking forward to that. > > How does portslave work with pppd, and which versions of pppd > (patched or unpatched) do you need for kernel 2.2 (which I am still > running) and kernel 2.4 (which will be the next upgrade) Portslave is designed to work with pppd 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 (I recommend 2.4.1). With the latest package in unstable it uses the standard Debian pppd to save disk space. In other situations it has it's own pppd binary. > > Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the > > current version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. > > With mgetty I had a line in my mgetty (on one line): > > U* uucp@ /usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/sbin/uucico -l -u @ > > The uucp clients were not in the radius server at all. This started a > session on our uucp server which did the authentication. > > Now I have in pslave.conf > > conf.ssh/etc/portslave/scripts/ssh-script > > And the file referenced above looks like this (mind the line wrap): > > #! /bin/bash > # > su uucp -c "/usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/sbin/uucico -x3 -u $LOGNAME" > > I have now added all my uucp accounts to radius, with the following > settings: > > User-Service-Type = Login-User, > Login-Service = Ssh A neat hack. However if you can give me a detailed suggestion about a good generic way of doing this sort of thing then I'd be happy to implement it. > Another comment. Portslave locks the serial port. With mgetty it is > still posible to use the port for dialing out, and even for faxing. So > with the a small multipurpose installations, mgetty may have > advantages over portslave. I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass the port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to take the port. > > Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other > > than PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to > > solve now than a year ago! > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > radius authentication and accounting? Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. > It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if > we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax > package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package I've been thinking of doing that. However I have no fax hardware. If someone suggests which code I should use as a fax code base and is prepared to test it for me then I'll add fax support to Portslave. -- 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]
Re: Fwd: Re: portslave
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 01:14, Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld wrote: > 1 - Where can i find documentation about configuring portslave? I`m > some lost about it and can`t imagine how to do that( i`ve tried to work on > the samples that came along with the program but didn`t get that to really > work). The usual ways: man portslave man pslave.conf zless /usr/share/doc/portslave/* > 2 - This is not very important , i have downloaded the source of the > program from sourcefourge but i can`t compile because of ppp , well where > can i find the pppd source so i can compile it ??? It's on Sourceforge. -- 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]
Re: Portslave
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:14, Cathedral wrote: > Where can i find documentation to configure portslave, i have installed a > portslave from unstable and i`m not getting a way to configure that. Run "dpkg -L portslave | grep etc" and you'll see a list of config files, you'll notice that the main config file is named "pslave.conf". Run "man pslave.conf" and you'll see all the documentation. Also run "man portslave" for the documentation on the main program. -- 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]
Re: portslave for potato
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05, I. Forbes wrote: > > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to > > test it though... Also it is a new version... > > I think I have found a bug with this package. > > We had a major power outage and everything went down. The > portslave machine came back up before the radius server. > > It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and > endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following > errors scrolling very rapidly. > > t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not > responding Thanks for the bug report, I know the likely cause. As a work-around if you make the secondary RADIUS server the same as the primary it should all be fine. I am going to change this anyway to allow for an arbitary number of RADIUS servers. -- 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]
Re: portslave for potato
Hello Russell On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... I think I have found a bug with this package. We had a major power outage and everything went down. The portslave machine came back up before the radius server. It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following errors scrolling very rapidly. t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 15 times Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S26]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 9 times Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S19]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 5 times It did not stop after the radius server had come back up again. Eventually I had run "killall -9 pppd-radiusd" to kill all of the stuck processes. After that init restarted the portslaves and it worked fine again. I look forward to your comments. Thanks Ian - 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 -
Re: portslave for potato
Hello Russell On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... I think I have found a bug with this package. We had a major power outage and everything went down. The portslave machine came back up before the radius server. It seems the pppd-radius on the portslave machine got into and endless loop trying to reach the radius server. I got the following errors scrolling very rapidly. t 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S23]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 15 times Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S26]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 9 times Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus port[S19]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1812 not responding Oct 12 13:42:37 nimbus last message repeated 5 times It did not stop after the radius server had come back up again. Eventually I had run "killall -9 pppd-radiusd" to kill all of the stuck processes. After that init restarted the portslaves and it worked fine again. I look forward to your comments. Thanks Ian - 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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portslave
Where can i find documentation to configure portslave, i have installed a portslave from unstable and i`m not getting a way to configure that. Thanks.
Portslave
Where can i find documentation to configure portslave, i have installed a portslave from unstable and i`m not getting a way to configure that. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave for potato
Hello Russell I have just tried this on my potato test system. I installed the deb over my old version. I let the install script update my existing plave.conf file but I did not change anything else. The kernel is version 2.2.19 I works fine! Thanks Ian On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... > > -- > 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 -
Re: portslave for potato
Hello Russell I have just tried this on my potato test system. I installed the deb over my old version. I let the install script update my existing plave.conf file but I did not change anything else. The kernel is version 2.2.19 I works fine! Thanks Ian On 9 Oct 2001, at 21:13, Russell Coker wrote: > I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... > > -- > 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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave for potato
> I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... Oh cool! I will test it for you! :) Thanks heaps Russell, - Jeff -- "Anyway - I need something more James Bond than Banana Man, if you know what I mean..." - Tom Gilbert
Re: portslave for potato
> I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... Oh cool! I will test it for you! :) Thanks heaps Russell, - Jeff -- "Anyway - I need something more James Bond than Banana Man, if you know what I mean..." - Tom Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: portslave
First off all thanks about the answer, i didn`t know about portslave, actuacly now that i have the program instaled(via apt) , well now i have two problems : 1 - Where can i find documentation about configuring portslave? I`m some lost about it and can`t imagine how to do that( i`ve tried to work on the samples that came along with the program but didn`t get that to really work). 2 - This is not very important , i have downloaded the source of the program from sourcefourge but i can`t compile because of ppp , well where can i find the pppd source so i can compile it ??? I thank about the answer.
Fwd: Re: portslave
First off all thanks about the answer, i didn`t know about portslave, actuacly now that i have the program instaled(via apt) , well now i have two problems : 1 - Where can i find documentation about configuring portslave? I`m some lost about it and can`t imagine how to do that( i`ve tried to work on the samples that came along with the program but didn`t get that to really work). 2 - This is not very important , i have downloaded the source of the program from sourcefourge but i can`t compile because of ppp , well where can i find the pppd source so i can compile it ??? I thank about the answer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portslave for potato
I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it though... Also it is a new version... -- 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
portslave for potato
I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it though... Also it is a new version... -- 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]
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 9 Oct 2001, at 0:02, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:36, I. Forbes wrote: > The versions before 2001-06-20 all sucked in various ways. It was only in > the 2001-06-20 version that I really got the source under control. > > > 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. > > Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the main > ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along with the > Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). Thanks, I am looking forward to that. How does portslave work with pppd, and which versions of pppd (patched or unpatched) do you need for kernel 2.2 (which I am still running) and kernel 2.4 (which will be the next upgrade) > > I am also not too sure if I agree with your comments on portslave > > doing everything that mgetty can do. I had a big battle to get > > portslave to work with my old modem to modem uucp clients. > > Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the current > version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. With mgetty I had a line in my mgetty (on one line): U* uucp@ /usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/uucico -l -u @ The uucp clients were not in the radius server at all. This started a session on our uucp server which did the authentication. Now I have in pslave.conf conf.ssh/etc/portslave/scripts/ssh-script And the file referenced above looks like this (mind the line wrap): #! /bin/bash # su uucp -c "/usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/uucico -x3 -u $LOGNAME" I have now added all my uucp accounts to radius, with the following settings: User-Service-Type = Login-User, Login-Service = Ssh The uucp server still has a duplicate authentication list as it accepts lots of connections over tcp/ip. Fortunately we have not sold a uucp for "modem to modem" use for over 2 years (we still sell lots of uucp over tcp/ip - but that does not effect portslave), so these are legacy clients and we only have to fiddle with the radius stuff when they close. Another comment. Portslave locks the serial port. With mgetty it is still posible to use the port for dialing out, and even for faxing. So with the a small multipurpose installations, mgetty may have advantages over portslave. > Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other than > PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to solve now > than a year ago! Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use radius authentication and accounting? It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package which could be configured to do everything anyone can expect a of a modem. When we get that right, we can start all over again for ISDN ... Thanks for the feedback Regards Ian - 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 -
Re: portslave
Hello Russell On 9 Oct 2001, at 0:02, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:36, I. Forbes wrote: > The versions before 2001-06-20 all sucked in various ways. It was only in > the 2001-06-20 version that I really got the source under control. > > > 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. > > Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the main > ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along with the > Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). Thanks, I am looking forward to that. How does portslave work with pppd, and which versions of pppd (patched or unpatched) do you need for kernel 2.2 (which I am still running) and kernel 2.4 (which will be the next upgrade) > > I am also not too sure if I agree with your comments on portslave > > doing everything that mgetty can do. I had a big battle to get > > portslave to work with my old modem to modem uucp clients. > > Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the current > version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. With mgetty I had a line in my mgetty (on one line): U* uucp@ /usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/uucico -l -u @ The uucp clients were not in the radius server at all. This started a session on our uucp server which did the authentication. Now I have in pslave.conf conf.ssh/etc/portslave/scripts/ssh-script And the file referenced above looks like this (mind the line wrap): #! /bin/bash # su uucp -c "/usr/bin/ssh -t -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/uucico -x3 -u $LOGNAME" I have now added all my uucp accounts to radius, with the following settings: User-Service-Type = Login-User, Login-Service = Ssh The uucp server still has a duplicate authentication list as it accepts lots of connections over tcp/ip. Fortunately we have not sold a uucp for "modem to modem" use for over 2 years (we still sell lots of uucp over tcp/ip - but that does not effect portslave), so these are legacy clients and we only have to fiddle with the radius stuff when they close. Another comment. Portslave locks the serial port. With mgetty it is still posible to use the port for dialing out, and even for faxing. So with the a small multipurpose installations, mgetty may have advantages over portslave. > Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other than > PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to solve now > than a year ago! Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use radius authentication and accounting? It would be realy nice if the above were true. It would also be nice if we could combine mgetty with features of faxgetty from the hylafax package. Then we could have one "answer the modem" package which could be configured to do everything anyone can expect a of a modem. When we get that right, we can start all over again for ISDN ... Thanks for the feedback Regards Ian - 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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > > Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, > fast, etc. I meant the tank. ;) > Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is too experimental for > upload to Debian) has got some new code for direct authentication without > RADIUS (which hasn't been properly tested yet)... Very cool - I'm just getting my hands dirty with the current version as we speak. - Jeff -- "The GPL is good. Use it. Don't be silly." - Michael Meeks
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 02:12, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, fast, etc. > > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some > > way. > > Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, > that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is too experimental for upload to Debian) has got some new code for direct authentication without RADIUS (which hasn't been properly tested yet)... > > I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package > > was still in limbo. :( > > I might pick it up if I get to like it. Well the current maintainer isn't really looking for someone to take over the job, he just wants what he's done to be accepted and there was some hold-up last time I communicated with him. :( -- 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
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > I like tanks! ;) Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) > I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package was > still in limbo. :( I might pick it up if I get to like it. - Jeff -- "NASCAR is not race per se. It's just a contest about who can turn left the best." - Unknown
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:27, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > > line! > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) I like tanks! ;) > > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's > > big enough for Portslave. > > > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > > Portslave installation. > > Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package was still in limbo. :( -- 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
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > > Portslave installation. > > Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? > Well, RADIUS isn't that hard. A simple radius server can auth from a number of different 'backends'. If you can't do PAM with the Portslave natively, then radius will provide the functionality. If you need any help with getting RADIUS working, give me a shout. Greeno -- Greeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > line! Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's big > enough for Portslave. > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > Portslave installation. Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? - Jeff -- "Trying to get a PC to analyse one of the most abstract forms of language - the poem - is like trying to drill for oil with a banana." - The Register
Re: portslave
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:36, I. Forbes wrote: > 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. The versions before 2001-06-20 all sucked in various ways. It was only in the 2001-06-20 version that I really got the source under control. > 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. Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the main ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along with the Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). > 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. Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the current version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other than PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to solve now than a year ago! -- 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
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > > Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, > fast, etc. I meant the tank. ;) > Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is too experimental for > upload to Debian) has got some new code for direct authentication without > RADIUS (which hasn't been properly tested yet)... Very cool - I'm just getting my hands dirty with the current version as we speak. - Jeff -- "The GPL is good. Use it. Don't be silly." - Michael Meeks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 02:12, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, fast, etc. > > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some > > way. > > Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, > that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is too experimental for upload to Debian) has got some new code for direct authentication without RADIUS (which hasn't been properly tested yet)... > > I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package > > was still in limbo. :( > > I might pick it up if I get to like it. Well the current maintainer isn't really looking for someone to take over the job, he just wants what he's done to be accepted and there was some hold-up last time I communicated with him. :( -- 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]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > I like tanks! ;) Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) > I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package was > still in limbo. :( I might pick it up if I get to like it. - Jeff -- "NASCAR is not race per se. It's just a contest about who can turn left the best." - Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:27, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > > line! > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) I like tanks! ;) > > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's > > big enough for Portslave. > > > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > > Portslave installation. > > Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. I recommend FreeRadius, although last time I checked the Debian package was still in limbo. :( -- 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]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > > Portslave installation. > > Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? > Well, RADIUS isn't that hard. A simple radius server can auth from a number of different 'backends'. If you can't do PAM with the Portslave natively, then radius will provide the functionality. If you need any help with getting RADIUS working, give me a shout. Greeno -- Greeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > line! Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's big > enough for Portslave. > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a > Portslave installation. Can I authenticate with PAM, etc. somehow? - Jeff -- "Trying to get a PC to analyse one of the most abstract forms of language - the poem - is like trying to drill for oil with a banana." - The Register -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portslave
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:36, I. Forbes wrote: > 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. The versions before 2001-06-20 all sucked in various ways. It was only in the 2001-06-20 version that I really got the source under control. > 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. Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the main ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along with the Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory). > 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. Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the current version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features. Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other than PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to solve now than a year ago! -- 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]
Re: portslave
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 -
Re: portslave
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 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:53, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Anything that can be done by getty, mgetty, radius-client, etc can be > > done better by Portslave. > > Is portslave appropriate for a smaller system, say with only three dial-in > ports? mgetty is not exactly the most polite software to administer, and > there are lots of times I'd like a simple, easy to install, sub-10-port > dial-in system. There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in line! If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's big enough for Portslave. Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult part of a Portslave installation. -- 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]
Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]
> Anything that can be done by getty, mgetty, radius-client, etc can be done > better by Portslave. Is portslave appropriate for a smaller system, say with only three dial-in ports? mgetty is not exactly the most polite software to administer, and there are lots of times I'd like a simple, easy to install, sub-10-port dial-in system. Thoughts or pointers? - Jeff -- "jwz? no way man, he's my idle" - James Wilkinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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]
