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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with -current ppp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920110951.285B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19970920122326.45564@scsn.net>

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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Donald J. Maddox wrote:

> 
>     Some of the recent changes to PPP seem to have broken it for me...
> Since I haven't seen any messages from others experiencing the same
> problems, I have to assume that something in my configuration is
> causing the problem, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out what
> it is.  Here's the relevant info:
> 
> # ppp -auto scsn
> Sep 20 10:08:22 rhiannon ppp[156]: Error: Tcp: Can't open socket 3000: No password in ppp.secret
> 
>     So, it is impossible to telnet to port 3000 to control PPP.  If I create
> an /etc/ppp/ppp.secret for test purposes, ppp can open port 3000, but that's
> not what I want, because then only a very small handful of ppp's control
> commands are available.

In your ppp.secret create a line like this
hostname	password
once you telnet into port 3000 type passwd password, and you'll get access
to everything.  Once I got past that, I've still had a lot of problem with
ppp -ddial.

- alex




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