Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <hospedales@wow.net> writes:
> I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same
> ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine.....
> It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect),
> so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
> CHAP auth that the server wanted.
This isn't what +chap means... you're saying that the ISP has to
provide a password to *you*.
Put "debug" in /etc/ppp.options_out, and check /var/log/syslog to see
what gets logged.
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