2010-09-15 Computers

Debugging PPP on Windows XP

I don't do this everyday so, guess what, I always forget how to do it and find myself spending lots of time searching for how to do it. This is a note so that I hopefully will know where to look when I forget it next time.

Hint one: Don't get lost in the massive amount of pages about setting the registry keys for activating logging. On XP Tracing is used instead. You activate it like this using a shell and from the command prompt you type:

>netsh
netsh> ras
netsh ras>set tracing PPP enabled
netsh ras>exit

The log is found in %SYSTEMROOT%\tracing\PPP.LOG.

You disable it the other way around. So from a command prompt you type:

>netsh
netsh> ras
netsh ras>set tracing PPP disabled
netsh ras>exit