Howdy, I recently [ie, 6am this morning] upgraded one of my bo boxes to hamm, via apt-get [which I must say is incredibly cool.. ]
Everything seems ok, except for ppp. It doesn't want to work anymore. I'd be happy if that were the end of the story, it'd mean that I was doing something wrong. See, the problem is, it doesn't work on _some_ providers. A little detail.. I dialin to a provider and authenticate via PAP. This was fine up until I upgraded ppp. It doesn't authenticate anymore. I've tried it on other providers and the same story... except when I dial into another hamm box. Everything's fine then. It works like a charm. # dpkg -l |grep ppp ii ppp 2.3.5-2 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. ii ppp-pam 2.3.5-2 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon with Heres what the logs have to say (sorry, this is gunna have to be verbose) [non-hamm box] Jun 25 14:25:18 apathy pppd[837]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: abort on (BUSY) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: abort on (VOICE) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: send (ATDT183195770000^M) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: expect (CONNECT) Jun 25 14:25:20 apathy chat[838]: %-u^M *** chat seems to spit out random chars like above, but thats another story *** I suspect.. Jun 25 14:25:45 apathy chat[838]: ATDT183195770000^M^M Jun 25 14:25:45 apathy chat[838]: CONNECT Jun 25 14:25:45 apathy chat[838]: -- got it Jun 25 14:25:45 apathy chat[838]: send (^M) Jun 25 14:25:45 apathy pppd[837]: Serial connection established. Jun 25 14:25:46 apathy pppd[837]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 25 14:25:46 apathy pppd[837]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Jun 25 14:25:46 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xffff084d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:49 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xffff084d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:49 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd0596> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:49 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd0596> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:52 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd0596> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:52 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x4 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd0596> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:52 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xffff084d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xffff084d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd1d10> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x5 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> <magic 0x49bd1d10> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xffff084d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xffff084d] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="username" password="password"] Jun 25 14:25:55 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x49bd1d10] Jun 25 14:25:58 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ""] Jun 25 14:25:58 apathy pppd[837]: Remote message: Jun 25 14:26:25 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0xffff084d] Jun 25 14:26:25 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x49bd1d10] Jun 25 14:26:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0xffff084d] Jun 25 14:26:55 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x49bd1d10] Jun 25 14:27:25 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0xffff084d] Jun 25 14:27:25 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x49bd1d10] Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x6] Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: LCP terminated by peer Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x6] Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: Modem hangup Jun 25 14:27:55 apathy pppd[837]: Connection terminated. This happens with every single provider, with the exception of hamm boxes, which looks like this: [hamm box] Jun 25 13:46:52 apathy pppd[639]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Jun 25 13:46:52 apathy pppd[639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xfffb> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 13:46:53 apathy pppd[639]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <auth pap> <magic 0xffff0382> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 13:46:53 apathy pppd[639]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <auth pap> <magic 0xffff0382> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xfffb> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0xfffb> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xfffb] Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="user" password="password"] Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="tombston" password=""] *** why am I receiving a user request from the other end? fwiw, that *** username only ever appears in an _OLD_ pap-secrets file.. any takers? Jun 25 13:46:55 apathy pppd[639]: sent [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 "Login ok"] Jun 25 13:46:56 apathy pppd[639]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0xffff0382] Jun 25 13:46:56 apathy pppd[639]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 "Success"] Jun 25 13:46:56 apathy pppd[639]: Remote message: Success Jun 25 13:46:56 apathy pppd[639]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.1> <compress VJ 0f 01>] ... etc. pap-secrets outbound connections is setup as user * password which seems right, and afterall - it works with the hamm box, so I guess it'd have to be right. Any takers? I'm downright baffled. It's no doubt something I've done, but I can't for the life of me work out why it's being selective about working.. TIA, D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]