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From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Dialin Problems
Date: 20 Feb 1996 14:17:53 GMT
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Eric Hake (eric@centercomp.com) wrote:
: >First, do you have the PPP user defined in /etc/ppp.sys, and if you do, 
: >is it correct?

: Yes, I have it defined, (and I have redefined it many ways, all with
: the same results) --

: /etc/ppp.sys contains:

: cntrlnP:\
: 	:di:\
: 	:li=/etc/netscripts/Pdialin.login:\
: 	:lu=/etc/netscripts/Pdialin.up:\
: 	:ld=/etc/netscripts/Pdialin.down:

: I have tried:


: cntrlnP:di:if=inet local.ip.num.here remote.ip.num.here:

: and several variations...

: I have checked the ppp.sys for any glitches with a fine tooth comb,
: and also looked for extra spaces -- none found.

: One glitch that may cause a problem that I didn't think about is that
: I have a outgoing PPP connection going on ppp0, which works great!  I
: just want to add a single modem so I can dialin to this system, and
: route packets through it to the outgoing PPP... is this possible?

: Thanks for any suggestions!

: Eric

If you have multiple IPs available to you, and you do have more than 1 
ppp interface defined in your kernel, and have the PPPuser in the netdial
group you should have no problems. Feel free to send over your 
/etc/netscripts/.up .down .login files.

David Bauman