[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Listers, > >after a dist-upgrade to sid two weeks ago, my ADSL connection / pppoe >intermittently doesnt start. There is no hardware problem as I can get into >the network without problems from another OS. >/etc/init.d/network restart executes without messages, but plog then shows: > >anna:/home/peter# plog >Oct 25 07:12:14 localhost pppd[5936]: sendPacket: send: Network is down >Oct 25 07:12:14 localhost pppd[5936]: Exit. >Oct 25 07:12:58 localhost pppd[5954]: The remote system is required to >authenticate itself >Oct 25 07:12:58 localhost pppd[5954]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret >(password) for it to use to do so. >Oct 25 07:12:58 localhost pppd[5954]: (None of the available passwords would >let it use an IP address.) > >However, the problem only occurs intermittently. Are there any diagnostic >tools that would allow one to narrow down the problem? I am not sure where to >start looking? > >THanks > >Peter > > I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of ADSL and pppoe, but with ppp connections over modems, the elusive "noauth" option is your friend when it comes to the "remote system is required to authenticate itself" errors.
With a ppp connection via kppp, the file to edit would be /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options, you would simply put "noauth" in the file on a line by itself, but it may be a different file in the same neighborhood for you. HTH. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
