[plug] ppp dial-in

[Jon Miller]

After reading various documents on the setting up a dial-in server in Debian, still not having any luck.  As a matter of fact there are no real logs of what is happening except in syslog.  I would have thought I would have some information in the /var/log/messages file.

/etc/ppp/ppplogin
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/ppp/ppplogin
# PPP Login Script
mesg n
stty -echo
exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach modem debug crtscts


/etc/passwd (snip)
hmacct:x:516:100::/home/hmacct:/etc/ppp/ppplogin

/etc/ppp/options.ttyS1

(none):remotepeername
192.168.1.1:192.168.1.254

The user is reporting to me that they get the following message:
"failed to connect to remote computer"
I have to assume that there is no connection being made as I was watching the log when the user was trying to dial in there were no information being recorded.

/var/log/syslog
Jan  3 16:47:55 mlfs1 pppd[171]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4f magic=0x4fcc2205]
Jan  3 16:47:55 mlfs1 pppd[171]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4f magic=0xf57ccd67]
Jan  3 16:48:25 mlfs1 pppd[171]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x50 magic=0x4fcc2205]
Jan  3 16:48:25 mlfs1 pppd[171]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x50 magic=0xf57ccd67]
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Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

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