On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Mofeed Shahin wrote:

|I have just set up mgetty and ppp so that I can get another machine to dial up
|and us my machine to connect to the internet, but every time it trys to connect
|I hangs up and leaves this error message in the log files :
|
|"Peer is not authorized to use remote address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
|
|where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP I have told it to use in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0
|
|What have I missed ?

The fourth field in /etc/ppp/{pap,chap}-secrets?  That field is for
specifying allowed the IP address(es).  Either of these lines should work

<remote user name>      *       <remote's secret>       *
<remote user name>      *       <remote's secret>       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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Clifford Kite                                               Not a guru. (tm)


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