I'm trying to set up one of our lab machines as a PPP server. I've successfully gotten to the point where a serial connection is established and ip numbers are established. However, I am unable to ping the server host from my home machine. I suspect a routing problem, but the routing table on the client looks okay (there is a default route to ppp0). I don't know how to check what is happening to the ping packets, since they appear to be transmitted.
One possible bit of complexity is that the server machine has two ethernet interfaces and does ip-masquerading for a small subnet. Also, I can't seem to remove the arp table entry for the ppp interface: ----------------------------------------------------------- laplace:/etc/ppp# arp -d euler.statmech SIOCDARP(pub): No such file or directory euler.statmech (192.168.1.3) at * PERM PUP on eth0 euler.statmech (192.168.1.3) at * PERM PUP on eth1 Here are some of the specifics: ----------------------------------------------------------------- I have dpkg package ppp version 2.3.5-2, and have compiled ppp support into the kernel 2.2.10 (not as a module). The ppp user runs this shell: ---------------------------- mesg n stty -echo exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach silent modem crtscts debug\ local-ip:remote-ip --------------------------- Our ppp options are: -------------------- asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock modem netmask 255.255.255.0 kdebug 3 lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx ------------------------- Here's a bit of ppp.log: ------------------------ Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: pppd 2.3.5 started by pppclient, uid 1005 Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 7 11:54:23 laplace pppd[15380]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <m\ agic 0x7500209d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <a\ uth pap> <magic 0x756b4adf> <pcomp> <accomp>] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <m\ agic 0x7500209d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <a\ uth pap> <magic 0x756b4adf> <pcomp> <accomp>] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x756b4adf] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x7500209d] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x756b4adf] Apr 7 11:54:24 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="pppclient" \ password=""] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 "Login ok"] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.1.\ 1> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x7500209d] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <\ compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr 192.168.1.\ 3>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr 192.168.1.\ 1> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 192.168.1.\ 3> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: local IP address 192.168.1.1 Apr 7 11:54:25 laplace pppd[15380]: remote IP address 192.168.1.3 Apr 7 11:54:54 laplace pppd[15380]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x756b4adf] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
