>From the pppd man pages :
" noauth Do not require the peer to authenticate itself.
This option is privileged."
Mithun
sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Surjo Das wrote:
>
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > I have been trying to configure a GVC 56 Kbps external modem on Red Hat 7.0. It
>uses the rockwell chipset. I wanted to connect to VSNL using the number 172222 which
>is assigned in Mysore. I configured the modem using kppp from the Gnome window
>manager under KDE menus. I used a script based method for connecting to the
>internet. The modem was able to dial in to the VSNL server and went till the
>authentication, but immediately it gets disconnected and throws up an error message
>"peer is not authorised to use address <dynamically_assigned_ip_address of vsnl>".
> >
>
> Keep a noauth in your /etc/pppd/options file, and moreover I hope you have
> not set your pc to use a fixed ip, do check up what hostname -i gives. It
> should be 127.0.0.1.
>
> sreangsu
>
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