On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi Can anyone give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? I keep > getting failure to authenticate messages. the following is from the kppp > details box: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > authenticate itself > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't find any suitable > secret (password) for it to use to do so. > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: (None of the available passwords > would let it use an IP address.) > > I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the > 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I copied > the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work either. > Here's the results of pon > > deblnx:~# pon highstream.net > Serial connection established.: > using channel 2 > Using interface ppp0 > Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS4 > sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xcf506a80> <pcomp> > <accomp>] > rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> > <auth chap MD5> <pcomp> <accomp> <mrru 1524> <endpoint > [MAC:00:c0:7b:8c:49:bf]> < 1b 04 02 02>] > sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> <mrru 1524> < 1b 04 02 02>] > rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xcf506a80> <pcomp> > <accomp>] > rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap MD5> > <pcomp> <accomp> <endpoint [MAC:00:c0:7b:8c:49:bf]>] > sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x2 <auth pap>] > rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> > <pcomp> <accomp> <endpoint [MAC:00:c0:7b:8c:49:bf]>] > sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth pap> > <pcomp> <accomp> <endpoint [MAC:00:c0:7b:8c:49:bf]>] > sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xcf506a80] > sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="[EMAIL PROTECTED],net" password=<hidden>] > rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x0] > rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 ""] > PAP authentication failed > sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to authenticate ourselves to > peer"] > rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2] > Connection terminated. > deblnx:~#
The only time I have had anything similar to this, it was the ISP's box playing up. I tried connecting with minicom and entering my username and password by hand, and the server rejected the password. All I could do was wait until the ISP fixed it. Can you connect with minicom? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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