[Gllug] pppd and connection sharing

[Mark Preston]

Hi,
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5467 may be helpful. It 
shows how to log error messages for this sort of problem. You don't 
always need minicom, and you have the chat and pppd installed as part of 
Mandrake 9. Also my posting 
http://list.ftech.net/pipermail/gllug/2002-December/030026.html to this 
list may also help.
Best of luck and Happy Christmas to you all,
Mark Preston
Dylan wrote:
 > On Wednesday 25 December 2002 00:38, Jonathan Harker wrote:
 >
 >>Dear all,
 >>
 >>A simple thing, really. I have looked in the HOWTOs and man pages, 
googled,
 >>fiddled with netconf and drakconf and torn hair from head when it broke,
 >>twiddled in /etc/ppp/options and tore more out when that broke too, but
 >>unfortunately I can't make head or tail of it, I don't have a PhD in
 >>networking, and I am now partly bald. Or perhaps I was before I 
started and
 >>just didn't notice.
 >>
 >>I have two machines, my Mandrake 9 box and a windows box, hooked up 
with a
 >>crossover cable. That bit works fine, as ping, samba etc. works 
nicely. (If
 >>you need to know, I have mandrake = 192.168.0.101 on eth0, windows = 
.0.1,
 >>default gateway = .0.101, DNS = .0.101... do I need to point the DNS 
to my
 >>linux box?).
 >
 >
 > You don't need to, but you can - if you do, then the Linux box will 
need to be
 > running a caching name service daemon (er, ncsd, I think...) If you 
don't,
 > then the Win box will need to know the /external/ dns server IP's. the
 > gateway setting will then deal with getting that connection out. btw 
- have
 > you tried a ping from the Win box to an external site (like your ISP 
dns or
 > mail server (via its IP address?)
 >
 >
 >>All I want to do is have my Mandrake box dial up the internet on 
demand on
 >>its farty 56K modem whenever it or the windows box requests stuff.
 >
 >
 > That's handled by diald, but I've never used that...
 >


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