From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 21:46:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA00481 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:46:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA00471 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA00510; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:46:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:46:04 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199701030546.WAA00510@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: drose@awav.net CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still no go In-Reply-To: References: <1.5.4.32.19961231000604.0066caa8@awav.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, David Rose wrote: % I'm still dead in the water with 'user ppp' connecting through my % providers Ascend Max200. I called my ISP provider and all he could % tell me is that it will not prompt for username or password. I have % FreeBSD and Windows95 both on this machine and Windows95 will connect % though this Server/Router. He did say that it uses PAP to % authenticate and I have tried PAP without any luck. Apparently, I'm % doing something wrong but I'm not sure what. Try the following in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: your-isp: enable pap accept pap set authname your-username set authkey your-password set openmode active set phone 9999999 set ifaddr .... This will tell your ppp to use pap authentication and to start the conversation itself. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com