David,
Cool. What you've written here matches the results of some further
investigating I did last night.
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From: David J. Picard[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2000 23:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dialing different hosts
Wilson,
I was doing multiple dialins at one time and had a simiilar problem. I
set the server as the IP address of the server and also set the
Yep I tried that and it didn't work
destination network as the IP address after the password entry. There is
Ahha that's possibly the one I needed
in general some strange, or complex, stuff going on based on the user
name alone. If the user name matches and nothing else does the first
entry is the best match. Flip your entries around and test it out.
Yes I have already done this and can confirm that you are correct. However
I don't feel it gels with my reading of the pppd man page. What do you
think ? .... hmmm I probably need to get onto a pppd list.
I may have wound up changing my user name in the end, I can't recall
exactly what I did since I set it up 2-3 years ago.
One thing I have found that works is to use the pppd-option of remotename
<name> which forces a server name and therefore picks the correct entry in
the pap-secrets file. Being a purist though I would prefer if I didn't have
to do anything but rather pppd determine what it's connected to and pick
the correct password.
However if all else fails it looks like I'll be able to use the remotename
option.
Thanks for the reply,
Wilson
Wilson Fletcher wrote:
>
> I had actually tried that before I posted the question but it didn't seem
> to work.
>
> ie. I tried
>
> wilsonf dyn143 @/etc/ppp/persisp-pw
> wilsonf geordi @/etc/ppp/worknet-pw
>
> And then tried to dial my personal ISP (ie. persisp-pw) but it failed to
> authenticate due to password error.
>
> Of course it could be that I got the server name wrong. What I did to
> obtain that was dial my ISP just using pppd and noticed that a routing
> entry was added for:
>
> ppp82.dyn143.pacific.net.au
>
> I assumed perhaps erroneously that dyn143 was the host (server) I was
> connected to.
>
> Any other suggestions ?
>
> By the way, can anyone elaborate on the usage of the /etc/ppp/peers
> directory thats in RH 6.1 ? I'm a bit vague about it's use.
>
> Wilson Fletcher
>
> PS. Tim I don't know what mail mail client you use but your mail is very
> painful to read since it comes through as an attachment.
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> Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2000 1:11
> To: Wilson Fletcher
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> Subject: Re: dialing different hosts
>
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