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Re: pppd died unexpectedly. Where to look?



On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 08:02:02PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Hans wrote:
> 
> > <bigger>System: Acer Travelmate 512T running Slink. Generic PCMCIA
[snip]
> > Nov 28 19:07:20 mack pppd[407]: peer refused to authenticate
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Somehow your ISP uses different approach than your configuration.
> Try adding -debug option to the pppd options in the kppp, and see if this
> produces more info.

I believe this is caused by trying to have the ISP authenticate itself
to you, which will never happen. You should add a line containing the
word 'noauth' to your /etc/ppp/peers/provider config file.

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