Jim Roland wrote: > I have been trying to work with PPPd with no success. I can make it > work great as a client dialing into an ISP, but I am wanting to make it > a PPP server for someone to dial into. > > Here is what I'm trying to do with PPPd as a server: > 1) Customers to dial into me as if I was an ISP. > 2) Get a DHCP address, not the same IP each time they dial into me. > 3) Get Winblows to authenticate without any special configuration at the > customer side. > > I have gotten PPP to authenticate with Winblows, but when someone calls > in, they mgetty answers the line and shows a login prompt. After they > provide a special login script to provide the "login" and "password" > responses, PPP then does CHAP/PAP correctly with Windows. I want to > eliminate this extra step. Don't run a getty on the PPP lines; run pppd directly. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
