Re: potato ppp authentication
John,
The University of Chicago offer a course in Linux (GNU/Debian); I took the course a
few years ago. This link is the from the course; it offers a good road map to getting
ppp working correctly.
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/OData/Courses/CS501/Local_documentation/ppp.html
Also, in troubleshooting ppp and pap, I've found the log files offer relatively useful
informtation.
Kevin
john cuson wrote:
> i'm configuring a potato box ultimately to be used as a firewall/proxy for a
> dial-up connection to an isp that uses pap authentication. i'm new to ppp
> under linux, but i've worked through the configuration as outlined in the
> how-to, and i can get ppp-on to dial out and connect, but it quickly drops
> the connection. when i follow the manual steps outlined in the how-to (pon,
> start the connection with minicom, log on, drop out of minicom, and issue
> pppd -detach) the stream of messages i get indicate a problem with
> negotiating for an ip address. ultimately, the final negotiation message
> indicates that the peer is not authorized to use the remote ip address on my
> machine. i've checked the pap-secrets file and it seems to be configured as
> the how-to wants (my local userid), but i suspect that i'm missing something
> here.
>
> can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> john cuson
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