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Re: tlug: Alan Stone's PPPd config question



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tlug note from "Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>
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Thanks,

I know the features of the netcfg, but am having trouble connecting to a
ISP which doesn't prompt for login or password.  Tried some
experimenting with PAP but to no avail.

Blaine


Leo Glynn wrote:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> tlug note from Leo Glynn <lglynn@example.com>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Hi Alan
> The easiest way for PPP is run
>      netcfg
> Click on
>      Interfaces
> and double click on
>            ppp0
> 
> found this out myself a few months ago ;->>
> 
> regards
> leo
> 
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > tlug note from "Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My name is Alan Blaine Stone (I go by Blaine, so from now on you will se
> > email from Blaine).  I live and work at Camp Zama, Japan, as a
> > Computer/Telecommunications Research Specialist, although my main job is
> > computer systems security.  I am also a graduate student with the
> > Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Auburn University.  My
> > major areas of study/interest are in Graphical User Interface Design,
> > and Human Computer Interaction.  Other areas of study have included AI,
> > formal languages and automata, atm, and Oracle database programming.  I
> > like working with Perl and Tcl/Tk, as some of my C++ code for school
> > shows this time.  I started using Linux about six months ago, although I
> > had a pretty good background in Unix.  I began on a Mac, and over the
> > years became upset at where things were going.  I like many others made
> > the switch to Win95, then Win NT, then OS/2.....the rest is history.
> >
> > I have a home built "Akihabara Power-house."  I'm running Red Hat Linux
> > 4.1.  Most of the projects I have done for school have been with
> > OSF/Motif, although I am personally attracted to AfterStep.
> >
> > I have a beautiful wife and two boys (5 and 4).  I'm 34 (wife the same
> > &%$@# ouch), she saw that last comment.  I have lived here in Japan for
> > three years.
> >
> > Well that's about it for an introduction.  I hope to hear, and meet some
> > or all of you in the future.  Thanks for the great welcome.
> >
> > Blaine :>)
> >
> > Craig Oda wrote:
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > tlug note from Craig Oda <craig@example.com>
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > On Sun, 11 May 1997, Alan B. Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > > My name is Alan Stone.  I'm new to the mailing list.  I ran across the
> > > > TLUG page last night, and wanted to be able to talk to other Linux users
> > > > here in Japan.
> > >
> > > Alan,
> > > welcome to TLUG.  Feel free to make a self-introduction...  :-)
> > >
> > > > account which works fine for my wife's Mac, but when I try to log on, it
> > > > does not prompt me for login or password.  I have read some on the uses
> > > > of PAP and CHAP, but am a little confused how I can implement that with
> > > > the Red Hat 4.1 PPP configuration control-panel.  Could someone help me
> > > > out?  I'd really like to get onto the AT&T account since it's much
> > > > faster.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > There is a sample ppp-options file at:
> > >
> > > http://www.twics.com/~craig/tlug/linux-ppp-options.txt
> > >
> > > Make sure you turn off Van-Jacobsen compression.  Sorry, I don't use
> > > RedHat.  However, I'm pretty sure that the pppd program is the same.
> > > Though, I seem to remember that RedHat had a seperate set of
> > > config files that were special to RedHat in addition to the standard
> > > config files.
> > >
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