Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:11:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "P. M." <philmich@hotmail.com> Cc: is@jocelyn.rhein.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Immediate disconnect when dialing my ISP Message-ID: <200004131411.PAA02919@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "P. M." <philmich@hotmail.com> of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 06:54:04 PDT." <20000413135405.70279.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Well, I know *I*'d use ppp(8) instead. When I tried using sppp I
found it a bit ``manual'' and lacking in functionality.
Have a look in share/examples/ppp/*isdn*.
> >From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
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> >CC: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Re: Immediate disconnect when dialing my ISP
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> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:51:20AM -0700, P. M. wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have been pulling my hair out the last couple of days trying to get
> >ISDN
> > > under Freebsd to work with my ISP (in case anyone cares, myOKAY.net,
> >german
> > > ISP). Every time isdnd establishes a connection to my ISP, it switches
> >to
> > > state 4 and immediately disconnects again, giving either "normal call
> > -------
> >
> > > clearing (local)" or "normal call clearing (remote)" as the reason. This
> > > happens after 0 seconds. I changed all the idle timouts, unitlength and
> >all
> >
> > > back, thinking that maybe the error was there. I gave my proper
> >myauthname
> > > and myauthsecret in both cases. Nothing. Immediate disconnect. Strangely
> > ------------------------------
> >
> >No, you didn't... not successfully.
> >
> >ifconfig isp0 debug, then try again.
> >
> >You should see, hex-encoded, the comment of the authentication failure
> >message in the syslog.
> >
> >Regards,
> > -is
> >
>
> Ok, I tried switching on debug, and now the dailin works just fine. I do get
> quite a lot of messages from isp0 when dialing in, some of them about it
> negotiating addresses, etc. Strangely enough, I can use any authname and
> authsecret with spppcontrol isp0 and it will still dial in perfectly fine. I
> really don't get it. As soon as I turn debug off, it's back to the initial
> problem. Since I am not familiar with the internals of ppp authentication, I
> don't really know exactly how to analyze the hex codes or what to do with
> them. It must be an authentication problem. How can I figure out exactly
> what went wrong (ie how to I get something human readable out of the hex
> codes?). And just why does it work when debug is turned on?
> Any help is really appreciated. BTW, I tried using PAP instead of CHAP and
> set myauthname and myauthname to the according parameters and then I get
> "PAP failed". Does it expect an authname and secret for the peer as well? I
> just couldn't say what should be wrong with my login/pass. Except maybe that
> my login contains an @ (in the form of username@myokay.net). I truly
> appreciate any pointers that could help me solve my problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philipp Michel
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