Re: troubles with wvdial.

[A Brady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Saturday 10 February 2001 21:14, awesome-dave1 juno com opined:
> Hello,
> 	I'm trying to get ppp going on one of my machines. I'm using wvdial, all
> appears to go well until I get the error:
> pppd daemon has died,
> 	and an error code of either 10 or 16. I checked /var/log/messages
> 	and came up with this:
> peer not authorized to use remote address
> 	this occurs after ppp negociation, it starts to send authentication
> packets, then it dies. Has anyone seen this error. My isp is earthlink if
> that matters, I've added the two following lines to /etc/wvdial.conf:
> Remote Name = "*"
> New PPPD

I haven't used earthlink in a long time. But, if memory serves me 
correctly, they require something like'eln/<username>' to log in.

Discovered that back when I used them on an Amiga. Again, it's been 3 or 4 
years since that and they might have changed.

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