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Re: ppp error - can't determine local ip

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 07:14
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In <3b6ffef8.6902790@news.adelaide.on.net> goble@gtech (David. E. Goble) writes:

]On 6 Aug 2001 19:17:20 GMT, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote:
]>
]>]I have RedHat 6.2, a nic, a fax/modem, networked to a win95 box on and
]>]off. Trying to set the rh box as a dialin server (using mgetty) and
]>]trying to dialin with a mac performa 580.
]>
]>]The /var/log/ppp shows that the mac connects and logs in, but then it
]>]says it can not determine the local ip.

It=? the referent of this it is unclear. Gramatically it should refer to "the
mac" but it may be /var/log/ppp. 
If you mean that the Linux machine cannot determine its own IP...

]>
]>Do you tell it what IP to use?
]>
]>]options.srv
]>
]>How does this file get called by your pppd?
]>Which version of pppd are you using?

Which version of pppd are you using. pppd 2.4.0 had severe problems reading any
options file but /etc/ppp/options.

Perhaps you could post the contents of that /var/log/ppp session (incliding all
time stamps)

]>
]/AutoPPP/ -    ppp     /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/options.srv
]*	-	-	/bin/login @
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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
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Subject: Re: ppp error - can't determine local ip
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