"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
>
> "D. R. Evans" wrote:
>
> > If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are
> > necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without
> > precedent; this is, after all, USWest.
> >
> > (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they
> > are now QWest. But it's probably just a coinicidence. It's no good asking
> > them. They don't seem to have a clue about much at all. In the course of
> > the last three months I have contacted tech support three times. They
> > didn't solve a single one of the problems.)
>
> That's because all the really talented people are not working for
> peanuts in tech support anymore.
>
> -Stephen-
There is a very good diagnostic-type page on setting up PPP
at:
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/
There is/are serverl pages of step by step instructions on how
to go about the process of figuring out just what the ISP expects
to process during your login.
It may be very useful in diagnosing just what is happening here.
Cheers
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