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  • From: russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>
  • To: r.heard AT staff.usyd.edu.au, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] ppp-on fails
  • Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:36:04 -0500 (EST)

Rob,
The only way I could get my ISP to accept my user login is to use the
complete login with numbers instead of letters. For example my login is
"myusername"(note all letters) but I had to use:
1234567899 AT worldnet.att.net (which was supplied by at&t). Its like every
URL has a "something.com" address and they also have a coresponding
number address (204.127.129.1)--if you get my drift.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Rob Heard wrote:

> Hi. I've just started trying to use basic linux and am having a
> problem with the ppp connection. I've used pppsetup to input the
> required info. ppp-on causes the modem to do all the right things for
> about 15 seconds, but then it drops out. The session info file shows
> that it dials up nicely, but fails at the user login. It seems to be
> sending the right username, but the file shows that it's sending seven
> asterisks when asked for the password - there are only 6 characters in
> the password. I don't know if this is the problem. I've tried
> retyping the password, adding spaces at the end, removing spaces,
> replacing my username with the full username and address, but have
> totally failed. I also tried versions 1.7 & 1.8 as well as the
> current version. The same thing happened with all of them. Any
> suggestions would be welcome.
>
> The machine is an old 486 DX with 8M RAM. It works fine with DOS
> dialups like dosppp and lsppp to the same modem bank, which uses unix
> and hasn't previously been tricky. I haven't asked the IT helpdesk
> because they only support Windows.
>
> Cheers, Rob Heard
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