[H-GEN] pppd

[Robin & Andy McPherson-Bruce]

Byron Ellacott wrote:

> Try enabling full PPP debugging, find out what negotiations it's
> trying to make, and see if it's even trying to send your password or
> not.

i seem to be sending write packets just fine, but no mention of a
response.. e.g. ppp: write frame, count=28 (+ four lines of hex) 'til we
drop offline.

> I had to (interestingly) supply the ``noauth'' option to ppp in order
> to make it use PAP authentication.

ppp2.2* spits the dummy if i try to demand noauth - invalid argument, or
summat..

> # For a PPP Server with script based logins not using PAP or CHAP
> # you need to disable this setting.
> auth

not sure if i've tried enabling 'auth' yet.. seemed a bit presumptuous
to go demanding things of the server.. +pap certainly didn't help, but
then, why should it..

> I put the ``noauth'' option in /etc/ppp/peers/provider which is where
> Debian keeps such settings.  You *are* using debian, aren't you? :)

we-e-e-ell..., not yet, shall we say. 8^). i figure by the time i can
deal with that, i might be able to appreciate it..

>  .. afaik, cuaN and ttySn have the same major/minor modes, and are
> just different names for the same beasties (under linux, that is)

diff'rent majors (4 & 5 resp.) in rh4.2, 'cording to the docs.

> Byron Ellacott

i thank you..

andy b.