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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