On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Geof Goodrum wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > > AutoPPP is a complication of dubious merit. In a way it's a nice > > idea, but it gives you nothing you can't get by telnetting over the > > PPP link once it's up. On the minus side, it prevents you from > > using CHAP authentication, and that is crucial to support mobile > > phone dial-ins, IMHO. > > > > I would forget AutoPPP. Set up mgetty, verify that you can dial > > in and get a login session, then move on to the PPP problem. For > > that, start by reading the man page. > > Are you sure that mgetty AutoPPP doesn't support CHAP? As I understand it It requires the pppd login option, which according to the pppd man page requires PAP. See also the mgetty 1.1.12 Makefile: # If you want to auto-detect incoming PPP calls (with PAP authorization), # add -DAUTO_PPP. Not needed if PPP callers want to get a real "login:" Likewise the example login.cfg line turns PAP on and CHAP off. > (I've only used PAP), mgetty just looks for the PPP handshaking after it > picks up the line, then fires up pppd with whatever options the AutoPPP > (or options file) specifies. At this point mgetty shouldn't be involved. > ... > I agree that testing the shell login before proceeding to PPP setup is > important. I've made the same recommendation to others on this list > several times in the past few weeks. Thanks for emphasizing that. By the same token, whatever the merits of AutoPPP, he can disregard it while he is getting something to work, and look into it afterwards from a more mature standpoint. -- Michael Talbot-Wilson ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Many good morrows to my noble lord!" - Catesby greeting Hastings (Richard III, Act III, Scene II). ... How do you pronounce W'ows, "Win" or "Woes"? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
