modem dialout

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Hi,

Oles Hnatkevych wrote:
> > Mgetty is meant for *dial-in*!!! Don't use mgetty for dial-out, it won't
> > work.
> 
> Well, it does work. The question is how to fool mgetty. ;-)
> 
>  answer-chat=""
> 
> After connection is established I type:
> 
>  RING<enter>
> 
> It's obvious I don't see what I type. 

Weeeellll... surely you can use a hammer to drive screws into a wall, but
that's not the recommended way :)

> And mgetty thinks someone's dialing in. That's "Microsoft tested and
> approved" ;-) 

Definitely :)

> You may put this into mgetty-FAQ if there's one and what I've done
> has never been done before.

It's not meant to be done that way -- if I document it, I will get lots of
extra questions about it, and I'd rather not answer them all...

> > Use "callback" if you want to dial-out and establish a modem connection
> > with a "login:"-Prompt.
> 
> I did 'man callback' and found it's useful thing, but freebsd package
> does not contain callback itself. So I had to found a way of foolin'
> mgetty.

Hmmm. If FreeBSD doesn't have it, that's bad. In the source, it's
definitely included (mgetty-1.1.x/callback/callback.c etc.).

gert

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