Re: PPP + PAP with Debian
In your email to me, Luis Francisco Gonzalez, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if somebody was using PAP and/or CHAP to connect to a ppp
> server using debian. I struggled with it for a week to no avail. I finally
> installed RedHat's ppp package using alien and it worked as advertised. I ended
> up installing debian's ppp back but substituing pppd for the version in
> RedHat. I assume therefore, this has to do with the changes made to pppd by
> debian. I noticed the problem arises in the authentication. The +ua option,
> which is kept for backward compatibility in pppd is completely disabled. This
> happened with the current(i2.2.0f-23) version of the ppp package as well as for that in Debian-1.2.5 (19, I think but could be mistaken).
This is what we use here to dial into the Cisco TS:
# /etc/ppp/options
#
# $Id: options,v 1.4 1996/05/01 18:57:04 alvar Exp $
#
# Originally created by Jim Knoble <jmknoble@mercury.interpath.net>
# Modified for Debian by alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
# Modified for PPP Server setup by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
#
# Use the command egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options to quickly see what
# options are active in this file.
## Change the next line to point at the serial port that your modem
## is attached to. Do *not* use the cua ports
/dev/ttyS1
## Default speed. Higher speeds can be obtained by setserial
38400
## This is the bare connect script. This should work most
## of the time.
connect "chat ABORT BUSY \"\" ATDT9999999 CONNECT"
## Make our ppp connection our route to the world
defaultroute
## We don't have a address we prefer to use.
noipdefault
## THIS IS IMPORTANT!! This must be the name you use for
## authentication for PAP. The password must be contained in
## /etc/ppp/pap-secrets which should be ***mode 600***
## THIS FILE CONTAINS YOUR CLEAR TEXT PASSWORD
## DO NOT MAKE IT WORLD READABLE!!!!
name sailer
## for the above 'name' option to work, you must have a pap-secrets file
## that looks like
##
## sailer * mypassword
##
##
asyncmap 0
crtscts
lock
modem
-chap
## Lets turn off vj header compression and bsd compression
## These seem to cause more problems than they are worth
## trying to get ppp working the first time. When you
## get ppp working, try commenting them out to see if you
## can get the slight performance gain they provide.
-vj
-bsdcomp
## These 2 lines provide a way to check to see if your
## ppp connection is actually still responding. As
## provided below, every 30 secs it will ping the remote end,
## and kill ppps after 4 *consecutive* failures.
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
## If you want to maintain a constant connection
## uncomment out this line.
# persist
# With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of our local IP
# address, even if the local IP address was specified in an option.
#ipcp-accept-local
# With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of its (remote) IP
# address, even if the remote IP address was specified in an option.
#ipcp-accept-remote
Tim
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