[ale] need working dial up

[Mark Wright]

On Dec 17, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Geoffrey wrote:

> 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
>

Its in there.  I commented out the auth option altogether and has no 
effect.  The text with the auth comment says that you should use the 
call option to keep authorization from happening with a specific user 
and not turn auth off completely.  I have tried all three ways, auth, 
noauth and #auth to no avail.