Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean
> Wrong passwords produce the "link is not 8-bit clean" message from pppd.
> For some reason improper authentication doesn't (can't?) get reported as
> such.
When chat authentication fails for any reason, the peer keeps on echoing
what it receives, still hoping for a correct login. Your chat script, just
blindly runs off the end and lets pppd start. The packets pppd sends are
echoed by the peer with bit eight cleared, and when pppd sees this it jumps
to the conclusion that the link is not eight bit clean.
It would be possible to write an elaborate chat script that would recognize
authentication failure, but it would have to be customized for each isp.
Not worth it.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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