On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Clifford Kite wrote:
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>
> The problem isn't the new pppd on your box (if I understand where this is
> coming from). Pppd offers the addresses to the peer and the peer won't
> accept the address 204.178.40.236 as pppd's IP address. There's nothing
> that pppd can do about that.
>
Thanks, but........
To re-explain.
(1) I downloaded the new source.
(2) I read the documentation.
(3) I installed the executables
(4) I added any/all configuration options demanded by the new version.
(5) I went home and tried to connect.
(6) It is broken.
It won't let me start a ppp connection. Although the previous version
would. In fact, the previous version had a bug which sometimes stopped the
kernel upon disconnect. However, aside from that, it worked.
Now, the new version adds some "features". These "features" are not new
configuration items that may be enabled to take advantage of them.
Instead, these new "features" are the default, preventing operation of
existing systems. This is a bug, pure and simple.
> If the 2.3.10 pppd was installed at the workplace box and the only
> authentication is login/password on callback then add the pppd option
> "noauth" to that box. The reason for the behavior is found in the
> explanation of the "auth" option in man pppd (authentication means PAP or
> CHAP there since login/password is outside the PPP specification).
`noauth` doesn't appear to do anything. It was one of the first things
I put into the options file. With 'noauth' it immediately hangs up
with "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so."
message in the log.
The only thing I could find that would let it stay up longer was the
"allow-ip *" option. Then it wouldn't allow me to use the IP address
that it must allow me to use.
Incidentally, if I comment-out the code ipcp.c, line 1400, the
new pppd works. There is at least one other non-fatal bug that
causes the logged message "tcflush failed: invalid argument".
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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