On 10 Apr 2000, John Hasler wrote:
|Simon Yeh writes:
|> 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 :-))
|
|Have you tried PAP without login/password?
|
|Has any one else seen such a setup? Unless it is extremely uncommon I'll
|have to figure out a way for pppconfig to deal with it.
It's unusual to have an ISP require that the peer identify itself using
both login/password and a PPP authentication protocol.
It's not unusual for an ISP to make a login/password prompt available but
at the same time look for PPP-speak from the peer and to switch to PPP when
it gets some, or when a timeout occurs because nothing at all is received.
If a carriage return is the first character received from the peer then
some ISPs will interpret it as a request for login/password access and PPP
might fail to start at the ISP. A login/password entered at a prompt may
start PPP at the ISP, but the prompt may also be there simply to provide
access for non-PPP accounts.
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