On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:35:10AM -0000, Haworth-Wood, James wrote:
> I have a problem with running diald 1.xx on Redhat 6.2 :
> [...]
> When I trigger the diald dial-up the pppd seems to handle it ok and the
> modem dials and just as authentication takes place I get the following
> errors in the log :
>
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate pppd[2658]: The remote system (lnx-pppdemon) is
> required to authenticate itself but I
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate pppd[2658]: couldn't find any suitable secret
> (password) for it to use to do so.
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate diald[2613]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
> '/sbin/route add 127.0.0.10 metric 1 dev sl0'
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate diald[2613]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
> '/sbin/route add default metric 1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev sl0'
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate diald[2613]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
> '/sbin/route add 127.0.0.10 metric 1 dev sl0'
> Mar 20 21:52:08 mailgate diald[2613]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
> '/sbin/route add default metric 1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev sl0'
>
> Now if I remove the default route set up by diald while it's re-dialling the
> next attempt to connect is successful. Can anyone help ??
Try using the "noauth" option to pppd.
This has to do with establishing a connection when a defaultroute
(sl0) is already in place. pppd tries to authenticate the remote
server, but it does not have any authentication information to go
by.
Tim
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