John, The University of Chicago offer a course in Linux (GNU/Debian); I took the course a few years ago. This link is the from the course; it offers a good road map to getting ppp working correctly.
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/OData/Courses/CS501/Local_documentation/ppp.html Also, in troubleshooting ppp and pap, I've found the log files offer relatively useful informtation. Kevin john cuson wrote: > i'm configuring a potato box ultimately to be used as a firewall/proxy for a > dial-up connection to an isp that uses pap authentication. i'm new to ppp > under linux, but i've worked through the configuration as outlined in the > how-to, and i can get ppp-on to dial out and connect, but it quickly drops > the connection. when i follow the manual steps outlined in the how-to (pon, > start the connection with minicom, log on, drop out of minicom, and issue > pppd -detach) the stream of messages i get indicate a problem with > negotiating for an ip address. ultimately, the final negotiation message > indicates that the peer is not authorized to use the remote ip address on my > machine. i've checked the pap-secrets file and it seems to be configured as > the how-to wants (my local userid), but i suspect that i'm missing something > here. > > can anyone offer any suggestions? > > john cuson > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
