Re: SUN Internal Remote Access via Pilot

[Guy Martin <guym@kotah>]

Ron wrote:
->
->Has anyone attempted to connect into SUNIR remote access service via Pilot, 
PPP, and Pilot Modem ?
->
->This would be very useful for email while travelling.
->
->Please email any suggestions as to recognizing challenge from Remote Access 
server.
->
->Thanks,
->
->RON L

Ron,

You have hit at the crux of the issue.. the Enigma challenge system we use
for dialin access to SWAN.  Palm, in their infinite wisdom (not!), doesn't seem
to have put anything in their PPP connection script language to wait for
a string containing wildcard characters, or anything to display a string that
it receives from the remote end.  Obviously, this makes displaying your
random challenge code very difficult.  (If somebody has found a way around this,
*please* pipe up).

I've been working this issue in my free time (not very much) through my
manager, whose sister happens to be a product manager for the Pilot at 3Com.  
They seemed to be interested at first in possibly giving us a patched version 
(apparently we are not the only company asking for this) of the network 
libraries that would support this, but have cooled considerably on the idea 
because "we need to show a business case" (my manager's quote).  One approach I 
could try would be to have all of you at Sun on this list that would like this
feature email me, and I could forward these on to my manager's sister at 3Com.  
That may help, but I'm not sure it will turn the tide....

The other option would be to write a HackMaster extension that traps for the 
event generated during PPP connection negotiation, and then provides the 
functionality we need.  I believe I saw the event or events that do this in my 
last perusal through the Palm header files, but it would require a fair amount 
of research, plus development time that I don't have personally right now.  
Maybe someone with more time would like to pick this up? 

	-Guy Martin
	-SMCC IR

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