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>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:48:48 -0400,
>"Ray C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I've subsequently done some testing... Using Win 95,
>>I configured the connection to open a terminal upon
>>successful connection. When I attempt to send the
>>login and passwd as clear text, the same failure
>>occurs. Yes, it seems my login and password are
>>being sent as hidden data.
>
>Almost certainly either CHAP or PAP.
>
>>I have little more than a rudimentary understanding of
>>PPP/PAP/CHAP; I suspect when this episode is over,
>>I'll know more about it than I care too.
>
>Live and learn ;)
Isn't that the truth. My first exposure to Unix was in 79.
We thought we were hot stuff after sucessfully connecting
several 2400 Baud Hazeltine terminals to a Burroughs Unix
box... I digress...
It's funny... I've built routers from the ground up, modified
the internals of numerous comm stacks.... Now here I am
sweating bullets all because my miserable ISP won't tell
me about their line discipline and login settings. -Go figure.
>
>>I asked the Prodigy Tech Rep if PAP or CHAP was
>>being used. He indicated that neither was being used.
>
>And you trust any tech support staff?
No, I could hear his wings unfolding in the background.
>
>How to track down this problem in Linux (forget Windows). Start pppd
>with the debug option and see what shows up in the syslog, probably in
>/var/log/debug but it depends on your syslog config. You are looking
>for lines like these :-
>
>rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x6c <b35fc23e1193c9fb081faff8c896e76b>, name =
"ISP.server"]
>sent [CHAP Response id=0x6c <c973de6109b7bd5122b57f494d75f598>, name =
"my_userid"]
Here's what comes out of pppd...
pppd 2.3.8 started by root, uid 0
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Exit.
>
>It might say PAP instead of CHAP. Until you know what your ISP is
>asking for, you have no hope of configuring Linux correctly. If in
>doubt, send me all the ppp debug lines.
Someone else from the list contributed:....
>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ray C. wrote:
>
>> My ISP is Prodigy and the connection works fine with an
>> established Win 95 configuraiton.
>>
>> Any advice is greatly appreciated...
>
>I had prodigy.net and was able to get it working. I had to change the last
>expect string for my chat script, though. By default it was sending an
>enter after connection and that screwed things up (if I remeber
>correctly).
>
>I used:
>
>connect "\p"
I tried this with no success. It changed the characteristic
of the chat sequence such that it would time-out, reset the
modem and try again.
>
>And that seemed to help. I also used either pap or chap (can't remeber
>which). You can determine which one is used in Win9x by clicking on the
>"details" button in DUN after connecting.
Doing this only only showed that the line was "Connected".
Perhaps, the absense of anything indicating "PAP" or "CHAP"
means that neither are being used.
>
I'm going to do some reading about PAP/CHAP now...
Regards
Ray
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