How do I enable PPP logging in Windows 2000?

John Savill

August 3, 2000

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A. Ityou are using Point-to-Point Protocol and wish to debug its possible to enablelogging as follows:

To enable logging on a server box:

  1. Start the Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS) tool in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

  2. In the left pane, right-click the RRAS server for which you want to enable logging, and then click Properties.

  3. Click the Event Logging tab.

  4. Click to select the Enable Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) logging check box.

On the Windows 2000 Professional machine:

  1. Open a command prompt window on the RRAS server for which you want to enable logging.

  2. Type the following command, pressing ENTER after each command:
    netsh 
    ras 
    set tracing PPP enable 

All PPP activity to the Ppp/log file in the %systemroot%tracing folder.This uses quite a lot of resource so make sure you disable once you have loggedthe required data.

  1. Open a command prompt window on the RRAS server for which you want to disable logging.

  2. Type the following command, pressing ENTER after each command:
    netsh 
    ras 
    set tracing PPP disabled

This can also be set via the registry:

  1. Start the registry editor (Regedit.exe)

  2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftTracingPPP

  3. Set EnableConsoleTracing (for Win2k Server) or EnableFileTracing (for Win2k Prof) to 1

  4. Close the registry editor

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