yeah, sort of... i made a dialup server for a friend who had a dsl connection at home and an internet cafe somewhere else... i coudnt get pppd to give the pppx interface an IP, i just recompiled pppd from source and it went as it should have in the forst place
:D Pablo Manalastas wrote: >My friend from Ateneo Physics dept. complained that he can >connect to Ateneo's ppp server using Win98 but not using >RedHat 7.2 linux. So I helped him find out what's wrong >by going though all the entries in /etc/ppp/. Nothing >seems to be wrong there. I asked him to check the ppp log >entries in /var/log/messages, and it seems that his local >pppd is trying to negotiate callback with Ateneo's pppd, >which is not configured to do callback. So I gave him >/usr/sbin/pppd from the AdmuLinux distribution to replaced >RedHat's pppd, and the former worked like a charm! My friend >then consulted the various mailing lists and he discovered >that RedHat 7.2 pppd was incorrectly built to negotiate >callback by default, but RedHat is silent about this. > >Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Has this problem >been solved in RedHat 7.3? How about RH 8.0? > >PMana > >_ >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
