At 02:32 AM 5/6/99 -0500, Vox wrote [abridged]:
>I used Linuxconf to configure
>ppp0....my modem dials no problem, does the handshake, goes mute when done
>with that, and then I get disconnected :( I have tried both PAP and
>cleartext authentication (cleartext doesn't work, my ISP doesn't support
>that, but I had to try)....now I'm clueless about how to make it work :(
First, do you have the options "debug" and "kdebug 0" set in pppd (either as
command-line arguments or in the options file)? If you do (or after you add
them), look at your system logs to see what pppd (and perhaps chat) tell you
about an attempt and why it fails. The info is probably in /var/log/messages
and /var/log/debug . Without knowing the details of either what you tried or
what the results were, I and others on this list are unlikely to be able to
offer much help.
> My windoze98 configuration asumes that the server asigns everything (IP,
>gateway and DNS), and I can't find a way to tell linux (or gnome or
>whatever) that the info has to be aquired from the server on login.
Are you still talking about a ppp connection here?
If so ... IP shouldn't be a problem; just put in values of 0.0.0.0 and pppd
will get the real numbers from the other end if it provides them. Not sure
what you mean by the gateway entry; pppd will set up the ppp connection as
the default route if you specify "defaultroute" in the pppd call (as a
command-line argument or in the options file).
The real sticking point is DNS. You need those values in /etc/resolv.conf
(or you need to be running bind on your machine), and I don't know of any
way to get pppd to set that part up for you. Anyone else ever figure out
that one?
If not ... if you mean getting this info when connecting to a LAN ... you
probably need to run a DHCP client on the Linux host. There's a DHCP HowTo.
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