On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:24:09PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Jonathan Markevich writes: > > I don't understand getting the PPP garbage right away... > > It means that the ISP wants to use PAP or CHAP authentication.
Yes, but... > > Any suggestions off the top of your heads? > > Run pppconfig, select 'PAP' authentication, and connect with 'pon' and > disconnect with 'poff'. > > Most ISP's use PAP. A few use CHAP: try that next if PAP doesn't work. A > very few use scripted logins, which is what you are trying to use and which > your ISP does not use. > > If you've made any changes to /etc/ppp/options undo them. > > If this doesn't work ask for help again. Here I am! The line in pap-secrets reads something like... username * password and yet I get... Nov 1 17:10:34 fennywood pppd[7289]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Nov 1 17:10:34 fennywood pppd[7289]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Nov 1 17:10:34 fennywood pppd[7289]: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.) Thanks a LOT for your help so far... -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
