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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 19:44:19 +1000
From:      Robert <robert@chalmers.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net
Subject:   [Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Dial-Up PPP]
Message-ID:  <338AACF3.1A26@chalmers.com.au>

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Kevin Eliuk wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 1997, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> > Can anyone point me toward documentation on interactive dial-up PPP that works
> > for FreeBSD 2.1.5? I never have gotten it to work, and I can't yet afford to
> > purchase the CD-ROMs. (I noticed this weekend that the FreeBSD PPP
> > documentation at FreeBSD.org is for 2.2 and up....)
> I'll and do other than RTFM :-)

Hi Kevin, different person here.
I tell you what. There must be an easier method than all this poxing
about with a couple of dozen config files, with examples for everything
except what we need. It's worse than UUCP!

Well, I've read the manual. I've even had ppp working. But each time
I come back to it, I get involved in stuffing around with a slightly
different setup.

This time, the site I'm dialing into is a PAP site. This means that the
connection simply sits there waiting for the PAP authentication, so
manual dialing wont work. I dial in and get CONNECTED 38400 and thats
it.

Ok, a question on the ppp.secret file.


> /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> #  Sysname              Secret Key              Peer's IP address
>  <machine_name>         <your_passwd>                   10.0.0.1


Who's machine name? mine, or their's.              Their address ?
and is it the same as the one in
the ppp.conf file?

> 
> /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> default:		<---------------- ????
>  set device </dev/cuaa0>


> Let me know how you make out.

Well Kevin. I tried everything, and although I can get it to dial the
site, thats as far as I get. I guess its that ppp.secret file.

I see the ppp.conf.sample file has a papsite entry that uses

	authname
	authword

type of thing? Is this in addition to ppp.secret, or in place of?


The other thing. I had pppd working fine. But how does this use PAP?
No one, including the manual knows! or at least aren't telling anyone
anyway.


Anyway, thanks for your clear description to the other chap, it 
certainly helped.


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