Re: peer refuses to authenticate

[Jardine@t-online.de (moron)]

Martin Bialasinski writes:

>JH>moron writes:
>>> You're right. It is.  I'll have to keep experimenting, I think
>
>JH> But the absence of noauth (and the presence of auth in
>JH> /etc/ppp/options) is pretty much the only thing that can cause
>JH> that error.  Could you send copies of /etc/ppp/peers/provider and
>JH> relevant parts of /var/log/ppp.log?
>
>How about +pap or +chap in /etc/ppp/options or
>/etc/ppp/peers/provider? Will the noauth nullify this as well?


I see now that I've been mixing manual configuration instructions I got from
a book on linux with pppdconfig, resulting in a lot of confused and
contradictory files.  Thanks for all your help - I'll keep all the advice
and use it with my next installation from scratch.

David