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Re: Diald auth problem



On 20 Jul, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
  |  Hi,
  |  
  |  I have a problem with diald. Diald connects and then disconnects with the
  |  message:
  |  
  |  peer refused to authenticate
  |  
  |  It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, but the man
  |  pages say that I should not do this.
  |  
  |  Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
  |  
  |  TIA,
  |  
  |  Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
  |  
  |  
Just stabbing in the dark, but I think that authenticate is asking the
machine you're connecting to to authenticate itself to your machine,
which it probably can't do. I'm assuming you're setting it up for
auto-dialing to an ISP.
-- 

Eric G. Miller
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