[ale] need working dial up

[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> I have put a little more time in on the problem tonight.  I created 
> /var/log/ppp and put local2 and daemon in /etc/sysllog.conf and pointed 
> them both to /var/log/ppp.  Now I can do tail -f /vat/log/ppp in a 
> terminal window and watch the communication log live.
> 
> Thats all exciting but I haven't really learned anything new except what 
> I found in an excellent write up by W.G. Unruh.  He clarified some of 
> the messages I am seeing.
> 
> The "connect: ppp0  <  - -  >  /dev/ttyS0" message means I have a ppp 
> connection between the local and remote ppp hosts/client.  The next line 
> I get is "sent   [ LCP  ConfReq  xx=xxxxx]".   This means my PC is 
> trying to make the ISP send authentication to me!   And I can't make it 
> quit.  An ISP is not going to answer any request like this.  I have 
> monkeyed with /etc/ppp/options where all this is kept and I have changed 
> the LCP request that is going out to nearly nothing but I can't get it 
> to go away.  The ISP is never going to answer any "LCP ConfReq" so 
> changing it is nice but I need to kill it.  I have to get past this so I 
> can keep the connection up.  Am I way off the path here?  This shouldn't 
> be so hard.

add 'noauth' to your options file

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Until later, Geoffrey