Hi, After an extensive readup of the manpage, I tried putting the "noauth" option in the /etc/pppd/options file. And wonder of wonders, it actually worked! Here are the two manpage entries: auth Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network packets to be sent or received. This option is the default if the system has a default route. If neither this option nor the noauth option is specified, pppd will only allow the peer to use IP addresses to which the system does not already have a route. noauth Do not require the peer to authenticate itself. This option is privileged. What is all this "route" business in the "auth" entry? What is a "priviledged" option? And one more - how do I set up pppd to be accessible to the general users? Sameer. Registered Linux User #148874 To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list button and fill the appropriate information and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
