[ale] Offering services over PPP

[Robert Owen]

On 4/11/06, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Uh hmm. How're you establishing the PPP connection?  Is it just gonna stay
> up all the time? Usually linux distros are set up to drop client ppp
> connections after a timeout with no activity. It's a great feature in client
> mode, but you're apparently trying to be in server mode.  Are you actually
> trying to, like, make a dial-up server ?  I wrassled down a ppp server on
> Solaris Back in the Day, it was pretty way complicated.  Nowadays there're
> beaucoup directions for setting up ppp servers under linux on google.
> Basically you need to set your modem(s) up to answer the phone, then hook
> the connection  up with a ppp ->server<- on your machine. This usually
> happens through fiddling /etc/gettytab or whatever the local linux
> equivalent is.
>
> Seems like the only way firewall configuration would be an issue is if
> you're actually running ipchains or ipfw on the box itself, which you said
> you're not. If you're sure of your ppp connection, you might want to
> experiment with the "listen" directive in httpd.conf. What happens if you
> explicitly set it to the ip address of the ppp connection? Will it respond
> then?
>
> -- CHS
>
>
>
> On 4/10/06, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > Christopher, all -
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> >
> > > Possibly a firewall issue?
> >
> > Acts like a firewall issue, except the system isn't running one (or I
> > can't find it..)
> >
> > This is running over an air link and maybe the filtering is being done
> > elsewhere. I may be able to try another connection - such as a telephone
> > modem - and see if I get access that way.
> >
> > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:16 -0400, Mills, John M. wrote:
> >
> > > > My system uses a PPP connection and I want the system's Apache web
> > > > server to accept browser connections over that link. Incoming
> > requests
> > > > over ethernet ('eth0') are handled fine, but I'm not getting a
> > response
> > > > from browsers directed to the IP of the system's 'ppp0' connection.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Mills
> >
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