Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:54:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Stoddard <tims@mercury.k12.ar.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960804115102.237K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960803202443.18720A-100000@mercury.k12.ar.us>
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On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Tim Stoddard wrote: > I am sending this to you since you seem to be the person that knows the > most about FBSD on the questions list. The question list has asked a > bunch of good questions and I have been reading through them all lately. I > have a ppp problem that you will probably know the answer to, so here > goes. Well, I certainly don't claim to know everything; I just pick up what other people have problems with. :) As a result I'm cc:ing this to questions. > My ppp does work. Here is a bit of information that may help. I am using > the /usr/sbin/ppp -direct to start up my ppp session. On a web site that > got posted on the questions list the other day they said to use > /usr/sbin/pppd -direct. I figured it was a typo, but I do not know for > sure. I may have a problem right there. Well, you see, there you go: I've never touched ppp -direct, or pppd (which is kernel mode ppp). > I have only two questions. First the default timeout is set to 180 > seconds of idle time. I have tried "set timeout 0" in a few of the logical > places, but I have not had any luck. What do you suggest. You're on pppd, then; the default time out on iijppp is 300s. I can't help you there. > Second question. I would like to use pap for security. I made a > pap-secret and a ppp.secret file, but again I have had no luck with > either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Under iijppp, all you need are: set authname MyUserName set authkey MyPassword disable chap deny chap accept pap in your dialup profile. I have no clue in pppd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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