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I have both Winblows95 and RedHat5.1 on my home PC.  I use MCI Internet
as my ISP and, under Win95, have nothing but praise for their service.
I cannot, however get Linux to connect.  I've read the how-to's and
FAQ's,  I've tried using EZPPP.  Nothing works!  Watching the debug info
shows the modem CONNECT (and the baud rate info) and then MCI responds
with a seven digit number in parentheses.  After a while, it just hangs
up.

I've tried the PAP setup stuff from all the doc's I've read but can't
get it to work.  So, this morning I got ahold of someone in their Tech
Support that knew a little more than Win95 setup - he was quite honest
in telling my MCI has no support for Linux and that he wasn't able to
help! :(   He did tell me, though, that they use PAP-CHAP
authorization.  Now, the HOWTO's mention CHAP, but for the life of me, I
can't figure out what exactly to put in that "/etc/ppp/chap-secrets"
file.

When I set up the Win95 account, the MCI CD install put MSIE4.01
(blech!) and it's Internet Connection Wizard on my machine.  It also
dropped a file named "mci2000.ins" in my windows directory.  Double
clicking it runs a program (\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Connection
Wizard\ISIGNUP.EXE) which creates a "Dial Up Networking" profile for my
MCI ISP. It is a text file which contains the following info (edited of
passwords and user names):

[MCI2000]
Time of Registration=Wed Jun  3 10:14:57 EDT 1998
Browser=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
mci_email_name={my_email_name}
mci_user_account_nbr={an_alphanumeic_acct_nbr}

mci_dns_primary_address=204.70.127.127
mci_token_id={a_long_upercase_alpha_string}
mci_page_style=1
mci_dns_secondary_address=204.70.127.128
mci_dial_phone=8178849102
welcome={a_long_numeric_string}
mci_site_file=MCI2000
mci_domain_name=internetMCI.COM
mci_email_password={my_email_password}
mci_home_url=http://www.mci2000.com
mci_page_background=bg_SUPPORT.gif
mci_order_nbr=-111
mci_customer_account_nbr={an_alphanumeric_acct_nbr}
mci_web_nbr=20
oreos_ahoy={a_seven_character_alphanumeric_string}
mci_smtp_host=mailrelay.mci2000.com
mci_chap_secret={a_long_alphanumeric_string}
mci_companyid=SUPPORT
mcislide3=s3_SUPPORT.gif

mci_system_name={my_isp_username}
Email_Name={my_email_name}

POP_Server={my_pop3_host}.mci2000.com
POP_Logon_Name={my_pop3_useraccount}
POP_Logon_Password={my_pop3_password}
SMTP_Server={my_smtp_host}.mci2000.com
Use_MS_Exchange=no
Domain=internetMCI.COM
DNS_Address=204.70.127.127
DNS_Alt_Address=204.70.127.128
NNTP_Server=news.mci2000.com

(Items in currly brackets, {}, were my personal account and password
info)

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Quote:> mci_chap_secret={a_long_alphanumeric_string}

This seems to be a CHAP entry and I would try a
"*"   "*"   "{a_long_alphanumeric_string}"

You might also try a kdebug 31 with ppp to 'see' the LCP exchange & post a
log

I had a feeling that was the password I needed, but I wasn't sure what to put
in the first two "fields".

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I had a feeling that was the password I needed, but I wasn't sure what to put
in the first two "fields".

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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:25:04 -0500, Eric Smalling

If you take Jeff's proposal and use more than one ISP, pppd will send
every password to your ISP you're connecting to until one password
succeeds. I consider this a security whole.

With my suggestion pppd will only send the password associated with your
MCI user name to the ISP. Make your chap-secret look like:
"your_MCI_user_name"     "*"     "your_MCI_pass_word"

For a second ISP you'll add the line:
"your_2nd_ISP_user_name"     "*"     "your_2nd_ISP_pass_word"

Dieter Rohlfing