[lug] CHAP PPP dialup

[D. Stimits]

Kyle Moore wrote:
> 
> I have to talk to the tech person at my client. I was able to connect
> using a Windows dial-up but when I went to the ftp server it was S/390.
> I doubt a financial company that runs something as reliable as an S/390
> would run Windows for much of anything....please tell me the world
> hasn't come to that...lol.
> 
> Anyhow, thanks for your ideas. I will definitely keep them in mind as I
> troubleshoot this further.
> 
> "Bonnell, Doug" wrote:
> >
> > Since your logs mention compression, could the problem be
> > that the client has compression enabled? If so, then there is
> > a problem if the client isn't running Linux, since the compression
> > in Linux ppp is different than the proprietary compression used
> > by Microsoft, etc.
> >
> > Just a thought....
> 
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You may want to try the following, if /etc/ppp/chap-secrets doesn't
already have something. As root, create a file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.
Make it read/write by root, nobody else. In it something like this:

loginname   *   password