Problem with PPP - callback

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:18:28 +0200

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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 01:28:58PM +0200, Lüftner Martin wrote:
> I use a Linuxbox (SUSE 6.1, mgetty 1.1.19) for dial in (Win95,PPP,PAP).
> It works very well but I'm not able to configure the mgetty for PPP callback
> If I dial in wihout PPP (as Terminal to get a login-Prompt) callback works.
> 
> Is there no PPP callback built in in mgetty 1.1.19 which is distributet in
> SUSE 6.1
> or it is not configured in the right way ?

PPP callback is outside mgetty's scope - when the PPP protocol starts,
mgetty hands over to "pppd", and pppd has to do the callback.  I have no
idea whether Linux' pppd can do this, but I'm afraid it can't...

gert
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