From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 15:50:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18593 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from idfw.com (idfw.com [192.41.47.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18486 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:49:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frankg@idfw.com) Received: from fast1 (dal54-27.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.1.185]) by idfw.com (8.8.5) id QAA18744; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:49:32 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: idfw.com: Host dal54-27.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.1.185] claimed to be fast1 Received: by fast1 with Microsoft Mail id <01BD2C15.27ECAF00@fast1>; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:50:01 -0600 Message-ID: <01BD2C15.27ECAF00@fast1> From: Frank Griffith To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: ppp -auto -alias demand Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:49:59 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I have FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486-66 unit and so far so good! I followed the tutorials on the website and edited the necessary files to get ppp running as my gateway for Win95 workstations. Again, so far so good. But when I type this command: ppp -auto -alias demand I see the following message: Can't open socket 3000: No password in ppp.secret This is followed by three more messages which basically say the same thing about ppp.secret. I have not edited my ppp.secret.sample file in anyway, nor have I created a ppp.secret file. In any case, the darn thing works anyway! I can enter dial, and off it goes and connects with my ISP, or just launch one of the browsers and bingo, it dials up and connects and I'm off. Are these error messages important? How can I stop them from appearing? And where can I find info on how to edit ppp.secret?