[techtalk] PPP Problems/Questions

[Pete Durst]

Hi Harry,

You have my eternal gratitude Sir!  That was exactly the problem that I was 
having.  Thank you very much for your excellent help.

Pete

At 03:03 PM 3/25/00 -0800, moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:
>Hey Pete,
>   Do you have a default route set already. If you do that interfers with
>ppp, which wants to set your default route. Also give wvdial a try. It has
>worked for almost all ISP's that I have used.
>HTH,
>
>Harry Hoffman
>Product Systems Specialist
>Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
>206.634.3082 x. 270
>
>On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Pete Durst wrote:
>
> > Hi Caity,
> >
> > I tried the different types, and no success with any of them.  I was able
> > to monitor the process via the terminal type login, and got some
> > interesting feedback there.  After entering my name and password, I was
> > given my IP addresses and the ISP starting sending PPP info back to me.  I
> > hit the continue button, and immediately get the "pppd daemon has died
> > un-expectantly" message.  The connection is then dropped,and I have
> > nothing.  ifconfig is not showing any ppp interface, and I am wondering if
> > that has something to do with the problem, or is as I assume just a 
> symptom
> > of the problem.  Any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> > At 03:05 PM 3/25/00 -0500, Caitlyn Máire Martin wrote:
> > >Hi, Pete,
> > >
> > > >  From kppp, I tried to make a connection, went through the most obvious
> > > > settings, and selected what I thought were the right switches, and 
> when I
> > > > tried to connect (watching the log window), I see the modem getting the
> > > > dialing commands, I see the connection message come back, and then
> > > > immediately I get a message about the "ppp daemon died
> > > > unexpectantly".  Looking at the details, the log file shows that "The
> > > > remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't 
> find any
> > > > secret (password) which would let it use an IP address."
> > >
> > >I had a similar problem changing ISPs from VNet (horrible customer 
> service,
> > >unreliable) to Earthlink.  The solution:  I had to change the 
> authentication
> > >from PAP (which VNet used) to CHAP.  Kppp supports four types of
> > >authentication.  Try each one and see what happens.
> > >
> > >Also, you can try to connect using Minicom to debug your connection.
> > >
> > >Let us know if this helps.  If not, I have some other ideas.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Caity
> > >
> > >
> > >
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