Re: starting ppp on host end
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> jens wrote,
>
> > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> > > oh :) I thought that the script started it at the other end :)
>
> > Not unless you made it!
>
> ok, slowly it's sinking in . . .
>
> > > OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end on a
> > > debian box? it seems to be with pppd to start the daemon, but I'm having
> > > trouble figuring out the man & doc pages.
>
> > Actually I recommend using mgetty. mgetty is capable of "auto sensing" ppp when
> > it picks up the line so you don't even have to log in and start ppp, your
> > script simply waits for connect and then you authenticate using PAP or CHAP.
>
> so I merely need to install mgetty on the remote host, and it will
> replace getty?
>
> > If
> > you like you can have pppd use the regular user/password database to
> > authenticate you. Having installed mgetty and made the necessary changes to
> > /etc/inittab you can put this line in /etc/mgetty/login.config (my email client
> > might wrap the line but it's supposed to be a single line):
> >
> > /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd proxyarp auth -chap +pap login modem
> > crtscts 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.127
>
> I've tryied a PAP script, but I can't see a difference between it's end and te plain chat script. So let's see if I've got this straight:
>
> 1) install mgetty on the remote host
> 2) put the Autoppp line above in, but switch "local" for "modem crtscts"
> as this is coming in over ethernet by the time it gets to the remote
> host. And switch to IP numbers to the static addresses for my local
> machine and the remote (i have a secon IP on the same subnet to use\
> for the local machine).
> 3) use pppconfig to get an initial PAP chatscript.
> 4) add a few lines aftr connect to handle the network logon and machine
> selection, stoppping right before the remote system would offer a login
> prompt.
Ooops. Sorry, I forgot that you're not dialing into a modem. No, this won't work because mgetty only works on modems. Hmmm. If you have a
script on the remote end which just runs pppd you should be able to just run this. Is that what you had working before? You were using pon?
Why?
> 5) try pon again.
>
> > > I've figured out to insert
> > > the ppp & shlc modules on the host, but I'm not clear on what else to do.
>
> > You shouldn't need to insert these modules if you have modules auto loaded.
>
> that's my impression too, but my modules don't seem to autoload:
Weird. Ok.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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