Very Computer

Hi All

Just switched to BT connect unmetered access and trying to get our
Slackware box to connect.

Had the setup working previously with Demon and Ezesurf, but these
didn't use CHAP.

Having worked through various problems, I think the problem may be with
the actual CHAP secrets file.

BT aren't a lot of help concerning linux, but they did confirm that
they use CHAP.

The connection works with Windoze, so the account is set up OK.

Has anyone done this before?

My current CHAP secrets file contains

<my_BT_userid>    *     <my_BT_password>
*                 <my_BT_userid>    <my_BT_password>

Any ideas?

TIA
Andy Hill

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Before you buy.

Get rid of the second line, it is not needed or wanted. Some of the docs
talk about it but that is for symmetrical authentication ( where you
authenticate the far side ) and no ISP I have ever heard of will allow
themselves to be authenticated. Make sure tht you do NOT have any of the
options to ppp which refer to chap or pap in you options file or on your
pppd command line. Thos eall refer to you authenticating them and will
mess everything up.
Finally, if you want more help, (the above comments on your chap secrets
file should not be causing the problem) please post a debugging log. Or
read
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
for a step by step procedure for connecting and help in debugging the
logs.

Hey there,

*snip*

I haven't had much experience working with CHAP, myself, but have you tried
using Slackware's pppsetup script?  It'll set up all of the parameters
necessary so that you can start and stop your PPP connection with ppp-go
and ppp-off, and it DOES have support for CHAP.  If you haven't given that
a try, I would HIGHLY recommend it. :)

Hope this helps...

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Thanks for the help guys!

I got it sorted with pppsetup, which I had to install as the machine is
not running the very latest Slackware.

Don't know exactly where the problem was until I get chance to properly
examine the config files created by pppsetup.

Cheers
Andy

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Before you buy.

hi Andy,

if you have a look in the btinternet.linux newsgroup you'll find an
excellent faq.

good luck.