Re: Need help with Marinetti

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Oct 22, 5:07 am, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-ri4-this> wrote:
>   To: Polymorph
>
> Polymorph wrote:
> > Its been a little while since I played with Marinetti, however, I
> > think you will want to use the SLIP link layer, *not* the Direct
> > Connect link layer. IIRC, the Direct Connect link layer is for
> > creating a connection using the Windows (2000 or less) Direct
> > Connection feature.
>
> The DirectConnect link layer is more for being able to directly connect
> two machines running Marinetti.  There was another link layer written by
> Andrew Roughan that allowed connecting using the Windows Direct
> Connection feature by adding support for MS-CHAP2 authentication but I
> can't remember what it was called.
>
> The SLIP, PPP or PPP (scripted) link layers are better to use when
> trying to connect to a Linux box.  I haven't tried to do this sort of
> thing for about 10 years but I seem to recall using slipd or pppd on the
> Linux side after configuring the serial port appropriately.

Yes, you are correct. I just went to the Marinetti site to refresh my
memory. It is the PPP (scripted) link layer you use to connect to
Windows (2000 or less). You need to write an appropriate script to
communicate with the Windows "Direct Connect" feature (which uses MS-
CHAPv1 - but as typical with MS, the implementation varies slightly
between releases of Windows). I played around with this a couple of
years ago, but could not get it to work when running the host
operating system (I think I tried Win98) in a virtual machine. I must
have another crack at it when I get time...

Sorry for the mis-information regarding the "Direct Connect" link
layer (my memory sucks!).

You're still advised (as Jeff and I pointed out) to use the SLIP or
PPP link layers when connecting to Linux however.

Cheers,
Mike