I too am having this same trouble. Any help on the removal of the route
would be appreciated. I thought it would be as easy as running linuxconf
and editing the Gateway/Routing sections but alas, I still have this trouble!
At 08:07 PM 12/16/99, you wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Tomas Vobruba wrote:
>
>|i'm newbie with configuration of modem on my linux machine and I have some
>|problems with it.
>|After installing Slackware 7.0 i try to launch pppd (with parameter
>|/etc/ttyS0)
>|but I got an error message :
>|
>|blava:~# pppd /dev/ttyS0
>|pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
>|pppd: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP
>|address.
>
>It's a misleading message. It means that you have a default route already
>set, perhaps to a LAN to which your box is attached. You can add the pppd
>noauth option to get rid of the message, but it would be best to remove
>that default route. This is because pppd won't replace an existing default
>route through the PPP interface even with the defaultroute option, and
>without it you will get no Internet access via the PPP connection.
>
>It's very likely that a network specific route to the LAN is already
>configured and you don't need the default route anyway - unless you're
>supplying Internet access to a dial-in. In that case you wouldn't want to
>set a default route through the PPP interface.
>
>---
>Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
>
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