Re: I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP
Try minicom.
and after you get connected start pppd.
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:11:07PM -0500, MallarJ2@aol.com wrote:
> I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a
> complex chat script. Can someone help me out?
>
> Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window
> after connecting, so I can do the following:
>
> Login: <my user name>
> Password: <my password>
> Challenge: abc93029
> Response:
>
> [Here I take the challenge number above and key it into a card-like device.
> It then gives me another number I need to key in as the "response". Then I
> press F7 (Continue) to start the PPP session.
>
> How do I mimic this functionality in Linux?
>
> chat doesn't seem to be powerful enough. I can use SAY or REPORT to see the
> challenge, but chat doesn't seem to provide a way to key in a number
> interactively. wvdial doesn't seem to be capable of this either.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
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Marcin Kurc
Indiana Institute of Technology
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