Bug 7142

Summary:	ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm -
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	apcot
Component:	ppp	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	feetduck, hingsun
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description apcot 1999-11-19 15:58:36 UTC

Have RH 6.1.  Updated PPP to latest RH 6.1 patch ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm.
PPP stops working with the following error:

./ppp-on
/usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
/usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use
to do
 so.

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Reverted back to RH6.0 ppp distribution (ppp-2.3.7-2) and all works ok. No
changes to script files in either case.

FYI-
Version: Linux version 2.2.12-20smp (root.redhat.com) (gcc
version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP

Anyone have any ideas?

Regards,
John

Comment 1 Chris Siebenmann 1999-11-20 10:32:59 UTC

I believe if you add 'noauth' in an appropriate spot in the
PPP options (either globally or for that system), this will
stop. Pppd apparently now insists on PAP/CHAP authentication
in some situations where it didn't used to.

Comment 2 apcot 1999-11-22 03:53:59 UTC

This solved the problem.  Thanks.

Comment 3 Michael K. Johnson 1999-11-22 20:40:59 UTC

You probably already have a default route set up on your machine and
you then ask pppd to set up a default route as well (with PPP, to do
so is the default, so you wouldn't need to do so explicitly).  pppd
won't do it.

The next revision of our initscripts package will solve the problem
completely by deleting the default route before trying to install a
new one.

Comment 4 Josh 1999-11-27 02:02:59 UTC

Yes, I too received the same problem.  I can reproduce it easily.  Also, I
tried reinstalling my system (for various reasons, mainly experimental),
downloaded all available patches for 6.1, and after updating my PPP to the
latest version (2.3.10-3.i386), I got the same problem.

I will remove this package and place the old one back.

Josh
FeetDuck

Comment 5 chirico 1999-11-29 10:22:59 UTC

I had the same problem, that is I lost my ppp connectivity after upgrading to
the latest initscripts package. It seems that if the variable GATEWAYDEV is
blank the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-up script put a defaultroute on
every interface it mounts. On my system I solved putting a line

GATEWAYDEV='none'

in /etc/sysconfig/network. Now PPP works well and the route table is OK.

Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-01-17 14:19:59 UTC

As I understand it, this should be fixed in the latest errata release of the
initscripts package (http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA1999052-04.html).
Please reopen this bug if it does not solve this problem.

Comment 7 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-28 22:06:59 UTC

*** Bug 9764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-28 22:14:59 UTC

*** Bug 9730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-03-16 14:01:59 UTC

*** Bug 10204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***