Catalin BOIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I ran pppd-2.3.8 from shell, it gives me:
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xe0361859> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> but pppd-2.3.9 gives me:
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0x73fe202b> <pcomp>
><accomp>]
>
> As you can see, PAP is not an option in 2.3.9. It's enabled by default!
Probably you have a default route already. If you have a default
route, pppd requires the peer to authenticate itself. The point is
that if you already have a route to a particular IP address, pppd will
only let the peer use that address if it has authenticated itself. A
default route is a route to every IP address, so if you have a default
route, the peer can't use any IP address without authenticating
itself.
If you are using pppd to connect to an ISP, it is almost always
because you don't have a connection to the internet already. :-)
In that case, you should not have a default route, and then pppd won't
ask your ISP to authenticate itself. If you have a default route
which can't get you to any IP address on the internet, then your setup
is broken.
To check if you have a default route, do `route -n'.
Paul.
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