On 18 Jan 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm having trouble running a dialin server. RH 5.2, 2.0.36 from source
> and all the normal RPMs and patches. Dialout on demad with diald works
> fine (is the default route when online) but I can't get dialin to work
> properly.
> mgetty is working and answering the phone, user gets authenticated but
> it seems to fail at the ip-up level as they never get IP negotiated. I
> can get a shell login but not a full ppp from a Win 95 client. I tried
> using the same configs I have working on a 5.0 box (making the syntax
> changes from 2.2 to 2.3). Any ideas?
Turn on reasonable amounts of mgetty and PPP debugging, and see what
the logs show you. Both have pretty detailed diagnostic info
available that way.
mgetty works fine for PPP logins from Win9x here under RH 5.2, on
several machines, including the AutoPPP stuff (so the Win9x box
doesn't need to use a script file).
If you turn on PPP debugging and set up /etc/syslog.conf appropriately
you can watch the entire LCP and IPCP negotiations happen, and see at
what point things are failing and why.
One of the things I like about the free Unixes is that debugging is
often about a hundred times easier than under closed OSes like Win9x
and NT :-)
As I recall, by default RH 5.x does not log PPP debug output anywhere,
so you do have to edit /etc/syslog.conf and do
killall -HUP syslogd
to get that information. I tend to stick it in /var/log/pppdebug but
you can put it anywhere you wish. Try something like
# pppd debugging
daemon.debug /var/log/pppdebug
at the end of your /etc/syslog.conf file. The mgetty docs describe
how to turn on mgetty debug logs, too, but what you are describing
sounds more like a PPP issue to me.
Jonathan
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