Re: tlug: ppp oddity?

["Eric Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

Is it possible it is using chap instead of pap?  I don't know about
turbopppcfg, but if it is a chap thingy it should be as easy as copying the
pap-secrets file to a chap version and trying.  In the log, did it mention
which (CHAP/PAP) it was trying to do?

Am I way off the track?

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara-shi <Kintetsu Yamato Yagi>
Nara, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive, anyway
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
To: Tokyo Linux Users' Group <tlug@example.com>
Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 4:51 PM
Subject: tlug: ppp oddity?


>
>OK, I was trying to get Cliff's notebook to work with a PPP connection
>today, and I finally did, but I've got some questions.
>
>1.  I dialed in with minicom, punched in the username/password, and it was
>correct, the remote pppd started, etc, all's great.
>
>2.  Now, I wanted to use a PAP connection from TurboLinux (pppd 2.3.5).  I
>know that TurboLinux's PPP stuff works cuz I set up a connection with a
>modem card on our other notebook and used it in the states when I was
>there, and it worked beautifully on the first try.  I also use it at home
>to connect to 3Web, and that works great as well.
>
>3.  Now, when I try this, and I look at the log, it simply says, "PAP
>Authentication Failed", and dies.  I have checked that the username and
>password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets is correct and that it is bound to the
>ppp0 interface.
>
>4.  so, I ended up just using turbopppcfg to specify Expect/Send lines to
>generate a proper chat script to login and THEN start pppd, but...
>
>
>So.. is there some kind of subset of PAP that PSINet is expecting but the
>Linux ppp daemon doesn't provide?
>
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