On 21 Mar 2000, Robert Haehnel wrote:
|Well, here are more details. The problem system is using using RH6.1 and pppd
|2.3.10. The system that works right is RH6.0 w/ pppd 2.3.7. Does anyone know
|of any bugs in the newer version of pppd?
|
|To re-cap, I can connect to remote systems using minicom, so the modem is not
|the problem. I get the following error when I try to use ppp.
|
| /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system (bis) is required to authenticate
|itself but I /usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any suitable secret (password)
|for it to use to do so.
The later versions of pppd are written to require peer authorization in the
event there is an existing default route. The pppd option "noauth" will
override this, but if you are connecting to an ISP then you want to remove
the default route. That's because pppd won't override an existing default
route by setting a default route through the PPP interface even when the
"defaultroute" option is set. A default route to a leafnode LAN isn't
needed anyway.
|bis: pppd failure at 04:09PM Thu Mar 16, 2000
|
|I have used eznet in the past, and it works great on my RH6.0 system. To
|convince myself that that was not the problem I ran pppd from the command line
|using my own chat script. Still same error.
|
|
|the command line I use is:
|
|/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 19200 connect '/usr/bin/chat -vf /etc/ppp/bis-chat'
|lock modem mtu 552 mru 552 debug crtscts -detach idle 120 user root remotename
|bis
Some freebie advice not related to this problem. Use the highest pppd
speed option that you can without causing connection trouble, 115200 is
okay in most cases where the modem is 28.8+ kbits/sec. Muck with the mtu
1500, sometimes a smaller value can cause problems. I'll assume you know
that the "user" option takes the ISP username as it's value and using it
implies that you are doing PAP or CHAP authorization, *usually* in lieu of
the login/password you show below.
|bis-chat is (w/o password showing):
|
|ABORT 'NO CARRIER'
|ABORT 'NO DIALTONE'
|ABORT 'BUSY'
|ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
|ABORT 'ERROR'
|"" ATZ
|OK ATDT917012506654
|CONNECT ""
|ogin: root
|assword: *******
|$ ppp
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