[ale] need working dial up

[Mark Wright]

Thanks for the reply Geoffrey,

That is pretty much what I am doing.  Instead of using minicom I am 
sending the dialup commands from a terminal window so I have full 
control of the "conversation" and I have a second window open that is 
displaying realtime messages from daemon and local2.  This shows me 
every command received or sent through the modem.

I don't think I am getting to the userid and password phase of the 
login.  The ppp session stops because my machine is sending an LCP 
authentication request to the host.   Only badly configured host would 
try to authenticate to a user.  Here is the short version of my 
/etc/ppp/options.  I have added or changed only a few.  Noauth is 
missing at the moment because I commented it out just to see if 
anything changed.  Adding -all is supposed to kill all LCP requests but 
with -all in the file I still get one "LCP ConfReq id=0x1"  and that is 
were we stop waiting for a reply.  It only repeats 9 times before 
failing and hanging up so I don't know what the lcp-echo-interval 30 is 
supposed to set.

asyncmap 0
crtscts
lock
hide-password
modem
noipdefault
passive
-all
debug
prxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx





On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Mark Wright wrote:
>
>>> add 'noauth' to your options file
>>>
>> Its in there.  I commented out the auth option altogether and has no 
>> effect.  The text with the auth comment says that you should use the 
>> call option to keep authorization from happening with a specific user 
>> and not turn auth off completely.  I have tried all three ways, auth, 
>> noauth and #auth to no avail.
>
> Sometimes you have to create a chat script to properly deal with the 
> connection.  You need to find out if they are using chap/pap or 
> noauth.
>
> If you have the setup, what you can do is run tcpdump/ethereal on the 
> same network and connect via a windows box.  You should be able to 
> pick up the sequence.
>
> Alternatively, simply dial into the server via minicom and step 
> through the process to see what they are sending and expecting.
>
> You do need to find out what the login info is, as you've noted, some 
> isps required funky stuff.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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