Re: KPP always dies
Thanks, that did the trick.
On Friday 06 December 2002 09:28 am, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> Matt Sheffield wrote:
> > On my Libranet Woody system, KPP will faithfully connect to the Internet
> > but proceeds to disconnect after about 2 seconds.
> >
> > I am able to connect with Libranet's LPPP app as well as wvdial so there
> > isn't a hardware problem. Can anyone guess what's wrong after looking at
> > the logs? I'm thinking it might be a mistake in my permissions, perhaps?
> >
> >
> > -SNIP- <
> > ------------------------------------
> > OK
> >
> > OK
> >
> > CONNECT B5/RX:26400/TX:26400/V42BIS
> >
> > /var/log/ppp.log
> >
> > Dec 6 02:24:20 mario pppd[5168]: The remote system is required to
> > authenticate itself
> > Dec 6 02:24:20 mario pppd[5168]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret
> > (password) for it to use to do so.
> > Dec 6 02:24:20 mario pppd[5168]: (None of the available passwords would
> > let it use an IP address.)
>
> This is the "key" to your problem. Somewhere in your ppp "options" file
> there is an entry for "auth". I am not familiar with Libranet, but in
> Debian Woody it is located in the /etc/ppp/options file. This option
> requires the remote computer to "authenticate" itself to your computer
> much the same way your have to "authenticate" via PAP or CHAP to it.
> This is mainly used when your computer is acting as a "dial-in" PPP
> server. Most ISPs will NOT do this sort of authentication, hence the
> hangup.
>
> The bottom line is to get rid of the "auth" by either commenting it out
> or changing it to "noauth". In the normal Debian PPP setup, this
> particular option is overided by the "noauth" setting in the
> /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, which you create with the "pppconfig"
> program.
>
> I haven't used kppp in several years, but I seem to recall that you had
> to edit the /etc/ppp/options file per above to make it work. It may
> have changed since I used it...dunno. Check out "man pppd" and try to
> figure out just what PPP config files are being used and make the
> appropriate edits. You might have this listed as an option in your kppp
> config / setup also... Try adding "noauth" to "Customize pppd arguments"
> and see what happens...
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
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