On Mon, 17 May 1999, Bernie Somes wrote:
> Hello, please find attached a copy of my mgetty.ttyS1 log file.
> Note at the end of the log the user name that was passed to pppd.
Okay. You have sent your mgetty log. It appears you have started pppd.
Now you need to send your pppd log. You said something about negotiation
failing - didn't you get that out of the pppd log?
Incidentally, do you understand why you are using the proxyarp option?
> I decided to go back to pppd 2.2 because it hasn't failed me as yet
> however, I don't feel that my problem is with pppd as much as it is with
> mgetty. When one attempts to login into my linuxbox (2.0.36 is all the
Okay. I would not presume to disagree. By the way, your log indicates
that mgetty is starting pppd, which is all it needs to do. Have you
verified that pppd is not starting?
> kernel support I need, no need to upgrade to 2.2.X) my system just
Thanks for the advice. Obviously, you know best, and is entirely your
affair.
> disconnects them, seems all users are loged as being "AUTOPPP"
> how would I over come this?
Since you are authenticating with PAP you can run an ip-up script which
looks at the peername environment variable and writes its own log. Or you
could look more carefully at the comments in mgetty's login.config, and
note the function of the third field there. Or you can chuck AutoPPP and
set up user accounts for which pppd is the shell. But I thought you said
that the link wasn't working, or was falling over, and you have now
changed the subject to incidental matters.
