[plug] PPP connection problems to Vianet

[Greg Raftery]

Hello,

Does anyone on the list dialup to Vianet? I am having problems establishing
my PPP connection, and my call to their support line resulted in lots of
'umms' and 'ahhs', and 'i don't knows'.

I am logging in manually via minicom, which is fine. I enter
username/password and then I see the PPP garbage as per the PPP-HOWTO.

I then manually bringing up the ppp interface with this command :

pppd -d -detach /dev/cua1 &

Which does nothing and then drops the connection. See below.

>From the HOWTO, I was under the impression that if I can enter the
username/password then PAP isn't being used, and the support bloke on the
phone said it wasn't.

In my log files, it seems PAP authentication is being requested by the
dialin server. Is this what is happening? If so, is the pap-secrets file is
the way to go? 

Here is the log from one of my attempts to dial in. The link drops after the
last ConfRej.

Nov  2 19:30:56 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552>
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xb1a0f318> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:56 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 552>
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xb1a0f318> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:58 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp> < 11 04 05 dc> < 12 02> < 13
0d 01 20 76 69 61 6e 65 74 64 69 67>]
Nov  2 19:30:58 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth pap> < 11
04 05 dc> < 12 02> < 13 0d 01 20 76 69 61 6e 65 74 64 69 67>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth pap>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x3 <auth pap>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x4 <auth pap>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552>
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xb1a0f318> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5 <auth pap>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 552>
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xb1a0f318> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x6 <asyncmap 0x0>
<auth pap> <magic 0xa7bf82df> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Nov  2 19:30:59 phantom pppd[1947]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x6 <auth pap>]

Regards,
Greg Raftery