pptp with pppd, not working with pty?

Pritchie · *nix forums beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Hi I am trying to get pptp working on OpenBSD 3.6

I installed the pptp from ports.
From the USING file in the pptp folder

"...
pptp is started as a psuedo-tty child process using pppd's pty option:

pppd call provider [pppd-options] \
pty "/usr/sbin/pptp hostname --nolaunchpppd [pptp-options]"
...."

where #.#.#.# is replaced by my ip address
fop is the name for my peer and points to an empty file called
/etc/ppp/peers/fop

when I try;
# pppd call fop pty '/usr/sbin/pptp #.#.#.# --nolaunchpppd' name trike
noauth
I get " Mar 15 19:13:37 trike pppd[15977]: unrecognized option 'pty' "

if I change pty to ptyp0 (guessing, from reading WWW) I get
"Mar 15 19:14:06 trike pppd[710]: unrecognized option '/usr/sbin/pptp
#.#.#.# --nolaunchpppd'"

if I change pty to ptyp0 (guessing, from reading WWW) I get
"Mar 15 19:14:06 trike pppd[710]: unrecognized option '/usr/sbin/pptp
#.#.#.# --nolaunchpppd'"

what is "pty" supposed to be? Anyone any ideas? Please help someone...

Thanks
SJP

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