Yes thanks, noauth solves the problem. however my debian distribution says not to change this for some reason!
Thanks again On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > ****************************************************** > * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * > * Douglas Hoftstatder * > ****************************************************** > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
