Bug 8673

Summary:	ppp not working properly with linux 6.1
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	M.N.Balaji <balaji.mn>
Component:	ppp	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version:	6.1	CC:	seppo
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Description M.N.Balaji 2000-01-20 19:38:08 UTC

i recently upgraded my linux from 6.0 to 6.1, after upgrading i could not
connect to the internet, when i was working with 6.0 i was able to connect
to the net and share with other client machines, but now i could not. i
even tried upgradion the ppp version to ppp-2.3.10-3 and initscript to
initscripts-4.70-1, but nothing seem to connect to the internet properly.

when i execute this command /usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error
messages

/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.

Please help me out in the above matter.

thanking you in anticipation

balaji

Comment 1 Riley H Williams 2000-01-20 22:13:59 UTC

Sounds like either /etc/ppp/chap-secrets or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or both) has
been overwritten in the upgrade. Both are listed in ppp-2.3.10-1.i386.rpm so
it's possible that's the culprit.

Comment 2 winfried.altmann 2000-01-21 06:52:59 UTC

HiYa,

this is easy to fix. There is now the auth option in pppd as default.
Just put in /etc/pppd/options the line wit noauth in there.

winfried.altmann

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-01-21 19:17:59 UTC

As rhw suggested, check and be sure your chap- and pap-secrets files
are still in the right places.  winfried.altmann is also correct that
adding the "noauth" option to /etc/ppp/options should fix it; the latest
initscripts package from Raw Hide includes the "noauth" option by default for
clients if you'd rather go that route.

Please let me know if this resolves the problem.

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2002-12-14 02:11:36 UTC

No answer in two years