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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:30:15 +0100
From:      peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   pppd (used to be: bisdn)
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970205023015.peter@grendel.>

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It's nice to see that my original question (is someone working on
PPP-support for bisdn-0.97?) resulted in a whole thread about how
many B and D channels one can have, why one would want to run PPP
over an ISDN line (authentification sounds like a good one to me)
and more.

By the way, it's working. I can dial in with PPP over HDLC. Thanks
to Andrew, whose last name eludes me at this moment. BUT:

The PPP patches patch pppd and make isdnpppd out of it. This is
some ISDN-specific stuff and really hasn't got much to do with
authentification. So, the small problem that I still have is a
pppd problem (not even a specific FreeBSD-problem, I guess).

Pppd expects my machine name as the first word on a line in the
pap-secrets file (I found that out with debug statements in the
isdnppd code). It tries to authenticate with that and then my ISP
tells me in polite terms to buzz off, because he wants my usercode
with a 'P' prepended. BTW, isdnpppd won't use the options file.

Therefore, I use the '+ua' option, but the man page states that
that option is 'obsolecent', so I'd like some solution that's
more future-aware. Am I doing something obviously wrong? I asked
Alta Vista, freebsd-questions and the yellow pages, but nothing
much came out.

- Peter
-- 
Peter Korsten  |  peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (UUCP)  |  peterk@IAEhv.nl
C/C++/Perl/Java hacker



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