Re: pppd dies immediately in kppp

[Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:08:48PM +0000, thus spake Thomas Halahan:
> 
> I cannot get kppp to work.  After the handshake with my ISP, I can see it
> connect, but the pppd daemon dies immediately.  I can connect with the 'pon'
> command.
> 
> I get the following error with kppp: 
> 
> pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so.
> pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.)

Have a look in your /etc/ppp/options file - somewhere it probably
says somethng like this

------------------------>  snip  <----------------------
# Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network               
# packets to be sent or received.                                               
# Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in          
# future releases of pppd. Use the call option (see manpage) to disable         
# authentication for specific peers.                                            
auth  
----------------------->  snip  <------------------------

try making it 

noauth

See if that helps..... If not change it back and ask again!

Glyn M







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