A little bit OT: an interesting POP

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > Username:/login:/Login:
> >
> > Not your typical POP. I know who Level 3 is, and I do have an AOL login. 
> > It's
> > interesting, however -- I was just expecting 8-bit "garbage" and not an 
> > actual
> > prompt.
> 
> As I recall from foggy (possibly inaccurate) memory.... PPP supports "plain 
> text" login before PPP is initiated, and also supports logging in after PPP 
> begins "in stream". To be more precise, I recall that years ago our POPS 
> gave login prompts. Some users client software would just start PPP 
> immediately and authenticate in protocol, and others would actually send a 
> typical login sequence and then start PPP.
> 
> As another scenario, I also seem to recall that some of our access systems 
> prented a logon prompt and the user entered their userid and password, they 
> would get a protocol prompt and would be able to type in the desired 
> protocol (slip, ppp, shell, etc.) and then ppp negotiation would begin 
> (depending on their selection).
> 
> Hence, I suspect your logon prompt is nothing unusual at all.

That's true, I forgot about that (a long time since I've used PPP). I wonder
if AOL has a special login for them and then authenticates against their
own network, or if my own AOL login will work. On the other hand, I'm not
interested in freaking out Level 3 :)

ObCCmp:
As for the 6551 carrier issue, I got it working, although I'm going to have
to add a "replay" buffer to the NMI handler so that I can buffer the exact
moment when carrier is dropped and thus know the exact length of the
transmission.

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