I've spend nearly a week trying to get PPP working between two linux
boxes (home and work, both running Red Hat 6.2), without success.
I can connect to my machine at work from a Windows box at work. I can
connect to an ISP (the uni modem pool) from my machine at home. But I
can't connect from my machine at home to my machine at work.
When I attempt connection, the client machine gets as far as:
Nov 2 21:57:15 stravinsky pppd[25735]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Nov 2 21:58:46 stravinsky pppd[25735]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
While the server reports:
Nov 2 21:57:15 nonsense mgetty[4815]: data dev=ttyS1, pid=4815, caller='none',
conn='26400', name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='danny'
Nov 2 21:57:15 nonsense PAM_pwdb[4815]: (login) session opened for user danny by
LOGIN(uid=0)
Nov 2 21:58:49 nonsense mgetty[4859]: init chat failed, exiting...: Invalid argument
Nov 2 21:58:49 nonsense mgetty[4859]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS1, pid=4859
So it looks like a pppd handshaking problem.
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On the client (home) machine the config is
------/etc/ppp/options----------------------------
lock
modem
--------------------------------------------------
------/etc/ppp/pap-secrets------------------------
danny * MYPASSWORD *
dyee * OTHERPASSWORD *
--------------------------------------------------
Username dyee, device ppp1 is what I use to connect to the ISP
(successfully); username danny, device ppp0 is the link I can't get
to come up. The config is identical except for the user/PAP name (and
the password).
$ cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
$ diff ifcfg-ppp0 ifcfg-ppp1
< DEVICE="ppp0"
---
> DEVICE="ppp1"
15c15
< PAPNAME="danny"
---
> PAPNAME="dyee"
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On the server (work machine) the config is
------/etc/ppp/options----------------------------
lock
modem
proxyarp
mru 296
mtu 296
129.78.151.17:129.78.151.16
name nonsense
crtscts
--------------------------------------------------
------/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.conf--------------
/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login debug
--------------------------------------------------
------/etc/ppp/pap-secrets------------------------
danny * MYPASSWORD *
--------------------------------------------------
*************************************************************
And this config can't be totally screwball, because a Windows machine
at work manages to dial into the box fine, with routing/proxyarp/etc
all working fine.
Any ideas? I'm totally stumped.
Danny.
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