my suggestion is:
You should read the pppd man page, the chat man page, the ppp-howto's
and the net-3-howto's. After your done reading your brain will be three times
larger.
.
On 01-May-99 CaT wrote:
> Craig Wright wrote the following:
>>
>> I just recently installed Debian/Slink and have been trying to get ppp
>> working.
>>
>> Here's my basic steps:
>>
>> 1. Dial in with minicom and start PPP on the server side.
>> 2. Quit minicom, without a reset.
>> 3. execute
>> /usr/sbin/pppd debug crtscts /dev/ttyS1 38400 asyncmap 20A0000
>> $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute
>
> Why not use chat?
>
>> Here is the contents of /var/log/ppp.log for one try:
>> -------------cut here-----------------
>> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.5 started by spiral, uid 1000
>> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Using interface ppp0
>> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
>> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Warning - secret file
>> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets ha
>> s world and/or group access
>
> chmod 600 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
>
>> I've not had this problem before. I've run Slackware and Redhat and
>> always managed to get my ppp link up, easily even.
>
> I think you've hit a security feature.
>
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