modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108 This will be a problem... you need /etc/modules.conf modifed..
This is what I have.... alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias char-major-108 ppp_generic thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L -----Original Message----- From: Doug Stalker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2001 12:53 PM To: George Vieira; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Pppd server won't authenticate > > > Firstly unless your using TCPwrappers and pptpd in the > inittab /etc/hosts.allow will do nothing.. > It was worth a try. :) > Check your /var/log/messages for anything else, so far your > posting just a couple of lines and we're probably missing an > important piece.. > > can you send a whole pppd session logs to us? There is nothing in messages, in syslog I get Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pptpd[11084]: CTRL: Client 202.129.XXX.XXX control connection started Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pptpd[11084]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE) Dec 11 12:57:36 legba modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108 Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pppd[11085]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pppd[11085]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pppd[11085]: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pptpd[11084]: GRE: read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = Input/output error Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pptpd[11084]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(5,6) Dec 11 12:57:36 legba pptpd[11084]: CTRL: Client 202.129.XXX.XXX control connection finished -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
