Some DialupIP questions

Thread View: comp.sys.next.misc

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Noam H. Arzt Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:07

#928

Author: Noam H. Arzt
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:07

29 lines
1782 bytes

Several question on DialupIP:

1. Page 13 of the manual talks about setting up the passive server. I assume  
that means I only have to deal with rc.slip and config.slip on the server side.  
But it mentions creating a special account with a special shell, though the  
details seem incomplete. What is account name? Password? UID requirement? I  
assume I use the UserManager to create this NetInfo account.

2. There are sample scripts for connection to a Xylogics terminal server. This  
is one option for me as a SLIP server. My understanding from my network folks,  
however, is that when I dial the modem pool (I am not guaranteed a specific  
connection), I am randomly assigned to a terminal server, and then randomly  
assigned an IP address from a pool of addresses. How then do I set the  
SLIP0REMOTE and SLIP0LOCAL variables in the config.slip file, since they are  
assigned dynamically?

3. Our campus has a network fire wall, so my terminal server prompts for a  
network user name and password for authentication. How do I work this into the  
script?

Thanks,


--
Mr. Noam Arzt                            215/898-3029 (voice)
Director, Special Projects               215/898-9348 (FAX)
University of Pennsylvania               arzt@dccs.upenn.edu
Data Communications & Computing Services (NeXTmail is OK)
Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Re: Some DialupIP questions

#937

Author: Bob Olson
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 15:11

26 lines
1712 bytes

In article <85739@netnews.upenn.edu> arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)  
writes:
> 2. There are sample scripts for connection to a Xylogics terminal server.
> This  
> is one option for me as a SLIP server. My understanding from my network
> folks,  
> however, is that when I dial the modem pool (I am not guaranteed a specific  
> connection), I am randomly assigned to a terminal server, and then randomly  
> assigned an IP address from a pool of addresses. How then do I set the  
> SLIP0REMOTE and SLIP0LOCAL variables in the config.slip file, since they are  
> assigned dynamically?

You need to uncomment the exec in login-annex.tcl:

#  Rather than just printing this message, you could ifconfig the interface,
#  for example, by using the exec TCL command:
#
#    exec /etc/ifconfig $interface $2 $1

Alternatively, you could try to convice the annex admins to turn on annex
security and set up an acp_dialup file that maps username to internet address.
That is what we do here, and it works very well. More details available 
on request.
--
   Bob Olson   -*-   olson@mcs.anl.gov   -*-   Argonne National Laboratory
     "You can't win a game of chess with an action figure!" --bob&dave

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads