[plug] ppp problems - No Response to PAP authenticate-requests

[Troy Otter]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:02, Brad Hill wrote:
> Debug output is as follows:
> 
<SNIP>
> password=<hidden>]
> Jan  6 10:09:11 mail pppd[23079]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0xa user="Brad"
> password=<hidden>]
> Jan  6 10:09:14 mail pppd[23079]: No response to PAP authenticate-requests
> Jan  6 10:09:14 mail pppd[23079]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "Failed to
> authenticate ourselves to peer"]
> Jan  6 10:09:15 mail pppd[23079]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3]
> Jan  6 10:09:15 mail pppd[23079]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  6 10:09:15 mail pppd[23079]: Exit.
> 
> As you can see, it's not even bothering to acknoledge the fact that i've
> asked to be authorized... which is a pain.  Other systems are logging into
> it just fine though, so there must be something i can change from the
> dialing end to fix things...?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brad Hill
> Marketcast Support Team
> MarketCast Information Services
> ph:  1300 655 818
> support at marketcast.com.au
> 

Maybe you need a pap-secrets file. For example

# cat /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client        server  secret                  IP addresses
"Brad"          *       "xxxxxxxx"

Of course replace xxxxxxxx with your password.

Troy.