From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 20 11:10:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19532 for current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-8.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19524 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00709 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:11:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with -current ppp In-Reply-To: <19970920122326.45564@scsn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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