by At work, I administer a small ethernet network (using addresses
in the 192.168.1.xxx range). We use diald and ipfwadm to get
to the Internet and this works really well.
My boss now wants to spend more time out of the office (hurrah)
but needs to dial in to our network from a Windows 95/98 machine.
I have to make this happen.
I had a hunt round the Internet and it looked as if mgetty was the
answer. I compiled and installed it and was sitting smugly when
the modem answered on the first attempt. BUT diald kicked in and
tried to call out- which of course it couldn't do.
The user (given in the Windows 95 dial up connection) had logged in
but pppd was complaining that the address of the dialup (which I
had set to 192.168.2.1) was unknown. There is an entry in /etc/hosts
for this machine.
The only change to the ppp set up was to add a '*' entry in the
pap-secrets file. I configured mgetty to use AUTO-PPP and this
seems to have worked. I think I'm just missing something on the
pppd setup.
The Linux box is running a (reasonably) standard RedHat 5.2 setup
with Kernel version 2.0.34. diald, mgetty and ipfwadm are all
at the latest (stable) versions.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Peter Hall