Guys/girls, This is a mail from a friend and networking is NOT my forte [sometimes there is an identity crisis with this thing.. when I think what my forte is :-D] It is a long mail but do bear with it and reply. He needs help. Let us do it? Rohit > I am right now nor running any proxy. > pls tell me what all would be needed. > I am using red hat 5.2 > and I am quite conversant with Unix. > I have gone thru a lot of documentation but I have been left somewhat > confused. > I am connecting the linux box and the windoze box by a 3 wire serial port > null modem cable, and I am able to login to the linux box using > hyperterminal on the windoze end. > I also have a null modem driver on the windoze end. > On the linux end I have made a ppp95 login which runs /usr/sbin/pppd as the > default shell > On starting dial up networking at windoze, I am using a display terminal > before dialling. Here I get the login prompt. On logging on ppp95 I am able > to login in. However no junk characters get displayed ( as they normally do > in case of vsnl ). After this I press f7 and it shows authenticating user > etc and then gives error 650, the system you are trying to dial into could > not respond to a network request. > I am using getty. > When I run pppd as root I see the junk characters displayed infintely. and I > have done the suid bit for pppd. > > I guess the above would give you a fair idea where I stand. > Is it possible to duck out all the login passwd crap as the serial port is > going to be dedicated for ppp. I had read somewhere that I can run pppd for > /dev/cua1 directly for a particular baud. But in that case I need something > similar to pppd on the windoze end. > > Pls see whatever help you can render.. as I am stuck thoroughly. And If I am > not able to do this soon, my people would lose faith in my knowledege and > capabilities of linux. > > If you can give first hand info it would be better, otherwise even pointers > will be ok. actually I have already gone through kilos of documentation and > I am getting stuck because they use getty/mgetty/agetty etc and each one of > them operate on different files. > > Is it possible to test the link from linux itself ?? ( may be by logging in > thru some pseudo terminal and pinging ) > > Also tell me what kind of IP schemes should I use. > On the linux end I would be having a diect IP over ethernet lan. The idea is > to give this internet access to the windoze machine thru ppp so that browser > on windoze can browse Internet. So I would be needing a bit of info about > proxy and IP forwarding also.. This area is grey for me as of now.. and I > would require detailed info. > > Please give me an overall structure of the system as it probably would > work..giving me an idea of what ip should be used. Some documentation says > that I can use 192.168.*.* kind of scheme for the ppp terminal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out http://lists.linux-india.org/
