Thanks the advice from Yves Autran, Clifford Kite, Ethy Brito. I've added
the pap-secrets and tweaked a few scripts and config files, now I can either
run "pppd call <myIsp>" (as root) or "ifup <ppp device>" to initiate a ppp
session.
Clifford wrote,
>How did you determine the ISP doesn't require PAP or CHAP? The log says
>otherwise and I'd trust that over anything lower-level ISP personnel may
>have said. It's likely they don't know PAP from CHAP from secret knocks.
I was wrongly assumed that my ISP dosen't require PAP/CHAP authentication
because:
- in my ISP's instruction for ppp connection, none of such are mentioned;
and fair enough, when I configured Window98 dialup networking, no such
option is presented to me either, and it works.
- my ISP already requires login/password before kicking off ppp session;
why would it need authentication again with the same information?
(but it does as it turns out :-))
So, there I was, already confused by the state of documentation from Red Hat's
ppp, even more confused--after seeing the ppp log told me my ISP was asking PAP
authentication :-(
I
One more question: is "ppp-watch", apparantly a pppd driver invoked by
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp a Red Hat 6.1 enhancement or else?
I can find no documentation or man page, nor the source of it?
--- Simon
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