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From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ppp and pap
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:03:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3583865d.ccs@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <EP4g10r1JIya089yn@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199806140051.UAA22825@mcfeely.concentric.net>

You should get messages through your syslog facility telling you what
went wrong -- be sure to put kdebug 1 as an option to pppd and then
check out what is happening.

I had one yesterday where it said no response to pap authentication
requests and it turned out the isp wasn't working.

on Sat, 13 Jun 1998 20:50:57 -0700 "Martin Courcelles" <martinfc@concentric.net> in
<199806140051.UAA22825@mcfeely.concentric.net> wrote:
>Hello There:
>	I am trying to connect to a new i s p.  The problem is that they are using
>pap.  Now if you login in with minicom, the only command that comes up is
>"system password".  Now I called the I S P and they are telling me that if
>you configure your pap correctly, this prompt will not come up.  I am using
>pon and poff for connection via debian.  I mad a chat script which looks
>somewhat like this:
>abort busy abort no carrier abort voice
>'' atdt7694860
>"CONNECT"
>
>This logs on to the system and waits for a connect command from the modem.
>All this works fine, but nothing happens afterwords.  I have edited the
>pap-secrets command to add the appropriate password and also edited the
>ppp.options_ou command to add the approprioate user.
>I have also edit the /et//ppp/options file to have +pap and auth
>uncommented.  I also made sure that the login command is commented.
>Now all it does is give me a connection successful and sits there.  If I
>tytpe an ifconfig, nothing comes up on the screen for pppd.  I already have
>setup the domainname servers speciications and stuff like that.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>P.S.  It works fine under windows 95, wierd.  My conficuration under
>windows 95 for dialup connection is:
>use ppp connection, with no login into network and use  software
>compression no password encryption and use t c p i p protocol.    Get ip
>address from server and use ip header compression.
>
>
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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com


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