<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6618.4">
<TITLE>connecting linux console using serial port (NOW PPP)</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Alex, in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> case of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">setting up</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">PPP</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> on my linux</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, do I have to run</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -n 2 -s 115200 /dev/ttyS0</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> in inittab file?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks again;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Regards;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Israel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Quoting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos"><SPAN LANG="es"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Alex, thanks for your soon answer, but in case I want to configure PPP</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> on this server, what files do I have to configure?</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Can I login in this server using SSHD over a PPP conection?</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">First you'd uncomment that /AutoPPP/ line in login.config file. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Depending if you want to allow or not direct login on modem line, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">you'd eiteher leave or comment out the "/bin/login" line at the end of </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">a file.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Than you'd need to install pppd and configure it. You'd go to </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/etc/ppp. Edit options and options.ttyS0 files, and probably take a </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">look into chap-secrets and pap-secrets (by default they should be </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">setup as fallthrough to /etc/passwd, unless you changed them).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">You might put something like this into options file:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">lock</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">crtscts</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">proxyarp</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1.2.3.4:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">And something like this into options.ttyS0 file:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1.2.3.5</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Change 1.2.3.4 to be the IP address of the server (box where the modem </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is). 1.2.3.5 is the IP address that will be assigned to the client </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">that connected from ttyS0. Make sure both addresses are on the same </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">subnet. And you should be set to go.</FONT></SPAN></P>
</BODY>
</HTML>