From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 23:40:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE96E10E5A for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10DkWx-00059t-00; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:39:24 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id HAA01488; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:38:52 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00887; Fri, 19 Feb 99 07:38:52 GMT Message-Id: <36CD1509.5E4D34C0@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:38:49 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Raoul Simpson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp problems References: <4.1.19990218201244.009707e0@mail.sirius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Raoul Simpson wrote: > > >Try getting the latest ppp from http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html. It > >now waits a second by default before looking for carrier. See the > >new ``set cd'' command. > > ok. now, with ppp interactive mode i am able to login (it provides a login > prompt). it then reports my ip address, and about 5 seconds later says: > "Warning: Sending empty PAP authname." and then disconnects. Sounds like you have an empty ``set authname'' entry in ppp.conf. Check that it has your login name set: set authname YourLoginName set authkey YourPassword If you still have problems please include your ppp.conf file in your next post. HTH > i'm using the > ppp.conf as described in the handbook for dynamic ip addresses. my dialup > script (which uses pppd) similarly disconnects. I feel rather foolish, but > despite having read the handbook, man, faqs, etc, i still can't figure it > out on my own. Any suggestions? > thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message