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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:27:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAP login
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111212517.16220A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <34c78c65.11922734@mail.cetlink.net>

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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:13:28 -0500, dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J.
> Maddox) wrote:
> 
> >If I use PPP (which _does_ support channel bonding, and
> >which works great under W95 dial-up networking), the modem connects fine,
> >but instead of a login prompt, I just get garbage characters from the
> >modem.  I know the problem is something simple that I am just not quite
> >grasping
> 
> Yep! :)
> 
> Those garbage characters you see are the PPP handshake from the ISP.
> You simply need to do a PAP authentication directly without any login
> script.
[...]
> My call to pppd looks like:

Or if you guys are using user end ppp, it's even easier, just add:
set authname username
set authkey pass
accept pap
to your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf

El hombre mas brillante dijo una vez "Cuidado hay NT". (it's a nerd thing)

- alex




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