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From: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au (Ted Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! PPP new to unix networking1
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 18:31:17 GMT
Organization: RC17 Proving Labs
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Steve Richards <steve@richsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I hope someone can advise me whats going on - I feel that I have got ppp
[...]
>can't open /etc/ppp/ppp.secret.


Saw the above line a few times in your log output.
Are you running PPP with either 'pap' or 'chap' authentication?
If you are, then you definitely will need to have a properly set
/etc/ppp/ppp.secret ie with username and authentication password
(which is not necessarily the same as the login password) as well as 
name of the system you are trying to log into.

If you're not using pap or chap, then "er, dunno".
I recently got iijppp working on my system, so I can understand
the knashing of teeth, pulling of hair and mounting phone bills that
lead up to success.

Mister_T

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