[plug] mgetty + pppd problem

Paul Day bonfire at bur.st
Wed Oct 17 02:05:25 WST 2001


Don't mind me. All working. pppd was loading up chat when it should've
been loading up PAP. :)


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Paul Day wrote:
> Ok, what am I doing wrong? I can't work this one out...
>
> Windows 9x client using PPP and PAP to dial-up to a RH6.2 box running
> mgetty and pppd 2.4.1 with it's own modem connection out to the Internet
> (ppp0 via modem on ttyS0 with nolock being passed to pppd).
>
> In /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config I'm calling pppd with:
> /AutoPPP/ -  -  /usr/sbin/pppd debug file /etc/ppp/options.server
> and pppd is suid root.
>
> Then in /etc/ppp/options.server I have:
> -detach
> asyncmap 0
> ttyS1
> crtscts
> lock
> require-pap
> refuse-chap
> login
> proxyarp
> ms-dns 10.1.1.1
> ms-dns 10.1.1.2
>
> and then in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1 to assign the IP addresses:
> 10.1.2.1:10.1.2.2
>
> The client can get a terminal no problems, it's loading up PPP and getting
> PAP up and running that's the issue. This is what happens on the dial-up
> server when the client connects:
>
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click mgetty[13269]: data dev=ttyS1, pid=13269,
> caller='none', conn='57600', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd',
> user='/AutoPPP/'
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click pppd[13269]: pppd 2.4.1 started by LOGIN, uid 0
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: abort on (BUSY)
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: send (AT&f^M)
> Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: expect (OK)
> Oct 17 01:27:29 click chat[13274]:
> xfff^X~^X~ff^X~ff^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^Ff^Ffff^F~xfff^X~^X~f^X~ff^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^F
> Oct 17 01:27:35 click chat[13274]:
> f^Ff^Ff^Ffff^F~x~xfff^X~^X~f^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^^^F~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^F
> Oct 17 01:27:41 click chat[13274]:
> f^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^Fxx~xfff^X~^X~ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^@f~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~
> Oct 17 01:27:47 click chat[13274]:
> f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^@^^~x~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~
> Oct 17 01:28:08 click chat[13274]: alarm
> Oct 17 01:28:08 click chat[13274]: Failed
> Oct 17 01:28:08 click pppd[13269]: Connect script failed
> Oct 17 01:28:08 click pppd[13269]: Exit.
>
> And obviously on the Windows client it gives me "Computer you dialled
> didn't repsond to a network request" error.
>
> To me it looks like ppp is trying to initialise the modem when the modem
> is already up with a serial connection. Is that thinking right?
>
> Anyone with ideas?
>
> PD
>
> --
> Paul Day    Web: www.bur.st/~bonfire   PGP-key: www.bur.st/~bonfire/pk.txt
>
>

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Paul Day    Web: www.bur.st/~bonfire   PGP-key: www.bur.st/~bonfire/pk.txt




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