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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:09:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP and Authentication
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807281205510.21490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35B9FB7B.60631B3@lundahl.com>

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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, James A. Taylor wrote:

> I'm having problems geting my ISP to authenticate my conection when
> running USER PPP.  The two modems connect but nothing happens and then
> my ISP times out and disconnects me.  As far as I can tell the reason
> for the time out is that I never send the
> authentication (my ISP uses CHAP Authentication).
> 
> Could somebody email a ppp.conf file they have used to successfully
> connect to an ISP that does not use any unix login but requires thta
> CHAP Authentication be the only type of authentication.

A profile with

isp:
 set phone "5551212"
 disable chap  
 accept chap
 set authname yourusername
 set authkey yourpassword
 add 0 0 HISADDR

should do it.  I know the disable/accept looks wierd, but they refer to
different modes.

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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