On 31-Aug-98 Jim Kusznir wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Jesper Frank Nemholt wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a RedHat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31.
>> I've set up ppp using netcfg, and with PAP turned on this works fine,
>> both when enabling the connection from netcfg and when using 'ifup ppp0'
>> from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>>
>> I've then installed the diald RPM found in the contrib area on the
>> RedHat FTP server (diald-0_16_4-1_i386.rpm) and the diald config RPM
>> (diald-config-0_1-1_i386.rpm) at the same place.
>>
>> Diald works fine and starts calling my ISP when I try to access some
>> internet address, but it fails logging in. Only a few seconds after the
>> modems has stopped handshaking, the line is dropped.
>>
>> As far as I can see, this is related to diald not using PAP, but I'm not
>> 100% sure.
>> I've experienced this problem before, and back then, it was caused by
>> diald not using the same connect-scripts/pppd-options as netcfg, and
>> because of that not using PAP (and my ISP doesn't accept anything but
>> PAP).
>> The problem is, I've forgot how I fixed it back then.
>>
>> As far as I can see, it's related to the diald-connect script in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>> I've tried to make som small changes to this scripts to force diald to
>> use the same script (ifup) as netcfg, but I can't get it to work.
>>
>>
>> Anyone with a solution ?
>
> I ran into the same thing and fixed it barely 24 hours ago. I edited:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/diald
>
> I added:
> if [ -n "${PAPNAME}" ] ; then
> pppopts="$pppopts name ${PAPNAME}"
> fi
>
> After:
>
> if [ -n "${LCP_ECHO_INTERVAL}" ] ; then
> pppopts= <<<cut to save typing>>>
> fi
>
> This should fix the problem.
>
> As soon as I can find the rpm author's e-mail address, I was going to send
> him this patch to include in the next version.
>
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Just edit Your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets from the redhat standard
"username ppp0 secret ip"
to
"username * secret"
and You should be off.
Kolbjorn
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