From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 5 15:51:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24347 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA24318 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 19023 on Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:47:08 +0100; id AAA19023 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: hackers@freebsd.org Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA00888; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:30:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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) X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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