Bug 9031
| Summary: | ppd dies on RedHat Linux 6.1, on a HP Pavilion Pentium III 733 MHz | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi> |
| Component: | ppp | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-02-02 19:33:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Suhaib Siddiqi
2000-02-01 02:10:11 UTC
This is a known problem with ppp and initscripts if you also have a network card or some other network interface up before you start ppp. The module warning is actually normal for the 2.2 kernel series. The problem is actually pppd requiring the other end of the connection to authenticate itself, and this is causing the failure. Try upgrading to the latest errata releases at http://www.redhat.com/errata/, or add "noauth" to the /etc/ppp/options file. Please reopen this bug if you continue having problems. The problem I reported is with the RH 6.1 errata and also with "noauth" /etc/ppp/options. Therefore I assume something else is responsible for this problem. Suhaib Whoops, missed that part. I see that WvDial is starting up pppd immediately. If your ISP actually requires your end of the connection to authenticate, that would be a problem. If you upgrade to the errata version of rp3 or grab the latest from Raw Hide, toggling off "Let PPP do all authentication" in the advanced tab will probably fix that. Barring that, I'd look at your routing table and try to see why you can't ping anything. Does name resolution work correctly? Is your default route set properly? I did try toggling off "Let PPP do all authentication". NO success!!! Also tried the latest rp3 errata from Red Hat errata. No success!!! Name resolution does not work either!!! the /etc/resolv.conf is OK. Being a system administartor for my company network, these should be first things to troubleshoot when a network connection fails. My ISP PPP accept "Any Kind of authentication". That is what I use on Windows NT. Same ISP and same configuration on another UP with no network card installed works just fine. Therefore I assume PPP is getting csrewed up seeing network card installed. I should have mentioned this in my previous message. (I have all the latest errata applied). The only diference is that I had to build and install XFree86 3.9.17c (latest developers xfree86 snapshot) because vnidia NTN Rivia video cad is not supported by XF86 3.3.5 and 3.3.6 gave a horrible screen display. However, I do not believe XFree86 would have anything to do with PPP dialup failures. Would try latest version frm Raw Hide tonite. Regards, Suhaib The only thing that would cause pppd to screw up with a network card is the noauth problem, which should be fixed in the latest initscripts. I seem to recall that the wvdial/rp3 combination (even in the errata, another of which will probably be released when the previous maintainer gets back from vacation) would fail to pass "noauth" to pppd when they start pppd. Pppd starts up, notices that a PPP link could provide the other end of the connection with access to your network (if you have routing enabled), and automatically requires the other end of the connection to authenticate. Without the fixes that are as of now only in Raw Hide (or GNOME CVS, in the case of rp3 and its included copy of wvdial), the only way to change this behavior is to add "noauth" to /etc/ppp/options. If upgrading to the Raw Hide versions of rp3 and wvdial doesn't fix things, and you still see the "The remote system is required to authenticate itself" error, then something is wrong and pppd is not being passed "noauth" on its command-line, and I need to hunt down a case that I'm not currently aware of. installing rp3 from Raw Hide fixed the PPP connection problem. BUT, the panel which you get when you dial (it has sliding bar while it dial-out) never closes, and kept saying "Pleas wait making connection"... I'm told that this was fixed in a recent Raw Hide version of initscripts (the problem was that /sbin/ifup wouldn't exit, so rp3 would just get stuck waiting for it to exit). |