Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hello Debianites, > > I am struggling to get the AutoPPP feature of mgetty to work. > I want to connect two Debian Maschines running (mostly) Hamm.
I have a working configuration. DISCLAIMER: This runs on RedHat 5.1. I'm just about to set one up for Hamm, so it will be interesting to see if anything changes. > In /etc/mgetty/login.config of the PPP-Server maschine I have tested > the following lines by uncommenting each in turn: > > #/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login > #/AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap -pap login > /AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth login +pap -chap modem crtscts proxya > rp lock I have /AutoPPP/ - - etc. I don't remember what the '@' does for you. Shouldn't you have '-detach' in there? > > /etc/ppp/pap-secrets is set up to include: > > # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd > # Tested both: > #* fliwatut "" > * 192.168.0.1 "" * Try: * * "" 198.162.0.50 I don't remember it being important to have the IP address of your local machine, but it seemed to be necessary to have the address of the remote machine in pap-secrets, if you are assigning it, as you are. I didn't even figure this out until I looked at the actual pppd code. Something about having that address assigned sends pppd down a different path, where it's trying to match the address with something in pap-secrets. Probably a bug, seems to me. You may have different results. Good luck!
