Re: pppd dies immediately in kppp
Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com> wrote:
>
> 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.)
Look in your /etc/ppp/options file for 'auth' on a line on its own and change it
to 'noauth' then try again.
Barry Samuels
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