Hi, I have one modem on /dev/ttyS3 and want users to call my phone line attached to it and access my Linux box (turned into a PPP server). I have redhat 5.0/kernel2.0.32 and mgetty is already installed on my system. I m configuring /etc/ppp/options.ttyS3 and something is not clear: I know that there, I ve got to put the IP of my linux box and the Dns entry for my dial up line. So, I have: 192.168.1.5:192.168.1.67 192.168.1.1 is the Static Ip assigned to my Linux box by my ISP, and 192.168.1.67 is an IP I chose to assign to my dial up line. Concerning the second IP in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS3, I understand that it 's the one to assign to someone that connects to the mentionned port ( In my case , it's the modem attached to my /dev/ttyS3 and attached to my phone line). But normally that IP wont be known by the user that dials to my machine. Should be transparent to him..right?? . Or is it the IP that the user who dials to my machine will have to configure also on his system?/ (Exple, on a win 95 client, in DialupNetworking Icon >Ip >Specify Domain Name servers. Also, where to put these entries and how: some told me to put them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Should the entry look like: for ie, #/etc/rc.d/rc.local : Dns entry for my first dial-up-line 192.168.1.67 /dev/ttyS3 ????? What about those people who told me that I can configure it that way: #/etc/hosts 192.168.1.67 My_Linux_box.nanet.com My_Linux_box #/etc/resolv.conf search My_ISP.com nameserver I P_of_My_ISP. ( Mind you that in this exple, there's no referrence to the port /dev/ttyS3) ***In pap secrets, there's normally an IP adress entry. I guess the dns entry of my dial up line should go next to the user that will call my system on the port where that IP would be assigned (/dev/ttyS3) ..right.. And here's what I found in a ppp How TO: "You will almost certainly wish to provide dynamic IP number allocation to your dial up users. You can accomplish this by allocating an IP number to each dial up port. Now, create a /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX for each dial up port. In this, simply put the local (server) IP number and the IP number that is to be used for that port. For example kepler:slip01" ...It's even more confusing, cause "kepler" would be my Linux box IP, that'ok..But the second part of this line in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS3 was supposed to be an IP adress, but not just mentionning "slip01". So, can I have in etc/ppp/options.ttyXX, something like: 192.168.1.5:/dev/ttyS3 ??? I ve read many , many docs (Ip networking,PPP..etc) and would really like someone to just tell me how he/she configured that part in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS3. For ie, I tell you that My linux box is 192.168.1.5, and we choose on the fly the IP 192.168.1.67 for the dial up line..just tell me how I should configure that dial up line entry, in what files should I go and how to valid these files?? How the user that calls into my system should configure it's system: with the IP of my linux box or with the Dns entry of my dial up line??? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
