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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:58:08 -0500
From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>
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Subject: Re: PAP login
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On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 03:53:51AM +0000, John Kelly wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:13:28 -0500, dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J.
> Maddox) wrote:
> 
> >If I use PPP (which _does_ support channel bonding, and
> >which works great under W95 dial-up networking), the modem connects fine,
> >but instead of a login prompt, I just get garbage characters from the
> >modem.  I know the problem is something simple that I am just not quite
> >grasping
> 
> Yep! :)
> 
> Those garbage characters you see are the PPP handshake from the ISP.
> You simply need to do a PAP authentication directly without any login
> script.
> 
> In my /etc/ppp directory is a file called pap-secrets containing three
> items of information:
> 
>   name         remotename       password
>   ----         ----------       --------
> 
>   John         BigTimeISP       toomanybozos
> 
> 
> My call to pppd looks like:
> 
>    pppd /dev/cuaa3 57600 defaultroute crtscts -bsdcomp \
>           asyncmap 00000000 connect /root/pppk/cetchat \
>           name John remotename BigTimeISP
> 
> The last line tells pppd to use the password "toomanybozos" from the
> pap-secrets file.  The "name" must match your user name at your ISP,
> likewise for the "password," but the "remotename" can be anything you
> choose.
> 
> The "connect /root/pppk/cetchat" is my chat script which contains some
> AT commands to initialize the ISDN device, dial the number, and wait
> for a CONNECT string, but nothing for logging in to a terminal prompt.
> As soon as the chat script gets the CONNECT string, it passes control
> back to pppd which starts the PAP authentication.

Thanks, John...  You are right on the money.  I never used PAP before,
so I didn't have a clue about this stuff.  All is working perfectly now.