I still am having problems even after doing everything mentioned in your
cookbook. Mgetty answers, the /AutoPPP/ thing starts okay. Then all I get
is a few handshaking signals back and forth (as indicated by the modem
lights) and then my Windows client reports that it cannot negotiate a common
protocol.
All in total the attempt lasts 0.5 minutes.
Any other suggestions?
----- Original Message -----
From: tom minchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: November 21, 1999 18:32 PM
Subject: Re: Need Dialin Server settings that work with DUN
> On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 07:26:43PM -0800, Syd Carter wrote:
> > I try to connect to my redhat 6.0 machine and establish a PPP connection
but
> > no luck. Mgetty is installed. The server answers, issues the login and
> > password prompts fine. However my client "Windows 95 dial up
networking"
> > refuses to get past the verifying username and password screen.
Eventually
> > I get the message "could not negotiate a protocol" (Or something like
that).
> >
> > I set up my win 95 dial up networking client with an IP address and
tcp/ip
> > protocol, enable sw compression, Use IP Header compression, Use default
> > gateway on remote network.
> >
> > I think the problem is somewhere in the settings for the pppd. Can
someone
> > send me the settings that worked for them.
> >
> >
>
> I wrote a small cookbook on setting that kind of thing up:
>
> http://users.interact.net.au/~tom/mgetty.html
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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