Re: [NTLK] PPP authentication fail

From: Ivan Shaw (ishaw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 11:59:33 EDT


On Thu, Aug 30 2001 Johannes Wolf wrote:
>Trying to establish a connection to the ISP, the modem will be
>initialized, the phone calls the right number, establishes the
>connection .... and hangs up aftewr a while (I guess after the providers
>modem hung up.
>Some 10 seconds later I get the error message that the PPP
>authentication failed.

This doesn't sound like a compression thing. I had a similar problem with UUnet roaming but solved it by writing a login script which explicitly passes userID and password based on the isp's prompt sequence.

--
Ivan T. Shaw, PhD
Why are you still buying Vitamin D?

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