I've also tried that site, http://users.interact.net.au/~tom/mgetty.html,
but wasn't successful until I found this solution from Eric Sisler. Here it
is:
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Subject: Re: PPP Server
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*snip*
Take a look at /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and/or chap-secrets. To get it working:
# client server secret IP addresses
* * "" *
*snip*
At 05:31 PM 11/24/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I still am having problems even after doing everything mentioned in your
>cookbook. Mgetty answers, the /AutoPPP/ thing starts okay. Then all I get
>is a few handshaking signals back and forth (as indicated by the modem
>lights) and then my Windows client reports that it cannot negotiate a common
>protocol.
>
>All in total the attempt lasts 0.5 minutes.
>
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: tom minchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: November 21, 1999 18:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Need Dialin Server settings that work with DUN
>
>
>> On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 07:26:43PM -0800, Syd Carter wrote:
>> > I try to connect to my redhat 6.0 machine and establish a PPP connection
>but
>> > no luck. Mgetty is installed. The server answers, issues the login and
>> > password prompts fine. However my client "Windows 95 dial up
>networking"
>> > refuses to get past the verifying username and password screen.
>Eventually
>> > I get the message "could not negotiate a protocol" (Or something like
>that).
>> >
>> > I set up my win 95 dial up networking client with an IP address and
>tcp/ip
>> > protocol, enable sw compression, Use IP Header compression, Use default
>> > gateway on remote network.
>> >
>> > I think the problem is somewhere in the settings for the pppd. Can
>someone
>> > send me the settings that worked for them.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I wrote a small cookbook on setting that kind of thing up:
>>
>> http://users.interact.net.au/~tom/mgetty.html
>>
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