On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:04:57PM +0300, thus spake Debian User:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following error message when starting pppd:
> /usr/sbin/pppd -detach
> /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> /usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for
> it to use to do so.
> /usr/sbin/pppd: (None of the available passwords would let in use an IP
> address.)
>
Are you by any chance using kppp? This seems to be a problem with
some versions.
One way around the problem is to take a look at /etc/ppp/options,
where it will say something like.........
# Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network
# packets to be sent or received.
# Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in
# future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable
# authentication for specific peers.
auth
Despite what it says, make that
noauth
and see if it works. There must be a better (Debian) way to do
this - I learned this vicious habit on Mandrake!
HTH
Glyn M
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