From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 10:58: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 10:58:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (hyperhost.net [207.159.132.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313D237B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:58:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from foobar.foobar.eyep.net (postfix@p23.a1.du.radix.net [207.192.129.23]) by hyperhost.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01087; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:57:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by foobar.foobar.eyep.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF557138382; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:29:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:29:06 -0500 From: Patrick Seal To: freebsduser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp and Earthlink Message-ID: <20001220002906.A60128@hyperhost.net> References: <20001219160105.B50387@hyperhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from freebsduser@earthlink.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:28:48PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD foobar.foobar.eyep.net 4.2-BETA FreeBSD 4.2-BETA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It worked! Thanks! I have no idea what a realm in ppp is though. On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 22:28:48 -0500i, freebsduser wrote: > I've been using earthlink for about a year without a problem. I think you > may have forgotten your "realm" in the authname (see my .conf below). I > have to put an "ELN/" before my login name. They changed this about 6-8 > months ago. It took a while with their tech support to figure this out. > If I connected manually I got a command line, ppp wouldn't kick off. > > Scott -- ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message