Hi all. I need a little help with local/remote ppp authentication and IP assignment I have a linux box configured with pptpd (PopTop) This is working fine for Windows clients the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file looks like this: client1 * xyzzy * client2 * xyzzy * The machine name is say sydney.domain.com My pptpd.conf file says localaddress in Sydney is 192.168.2.1 remotes are from 192.168.2.250-254 If I modify the chap secrets file to say client2 * xyzzy 192.168.2.254 This works ok, ie the client2 will always gets the same address (when tested with a windoze box) I have installed pptpd on another Linux , this is also working fine for Windoze The machine name is say melbourne.domain.com I want it to maintain a tunnel to the sydney box I have installed pptp and configured the chap-secrets file on this melbourne system as so: client2 sydney.domain.com xyzzy * I launch pptp as so: pptp sydney.domain.com debug name client2 remotename sydney.domain.com The message I get in the log in Melbourne is: Apr 5 02:02:10 melbourne pppd[1011]: Using interface ppp1 Apr 5 02:02:10 melbourne pppd[1011]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/ttya0 Apr 5 02:02:13 melbourne pppd[1011]: Remote message: Welcome to sydney.domain.com Apr 5 02:02:13 melbourne pppd[1011]: Peer is not authorized to use remote address 192.168.2.1 Apr 5 02:02:13 melbourne pppd[1011]: Deflate (15) compression enabled Apr 5 02:02:16 emelbourne pppd[1011]: Connection terminated. Apr 5 02:02:16 melbourne pppd[1011]: Connect time 0.1 minutes. Apr 5 02:02:16 melbourne pppd[1011]: Sent 270 bytes, received 307 bytes. Apr 5 02:02:17 melbourne pppd[1011]: Exit. I still get the message if I try : pptp sydney.domain.com debug name client2 remotename sydney.domain.com 192.168.2.254:192.168.2.1 I guess it's just one more option somewhere, but It's late and I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated. TIA Ian (time for bed) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
