smoothwall transact issues

[Peter Barker]

On 13 Jan 2002, rob shugg wrote:

> I'm trying to bet transact going with smoothwall but with little
> success. here is the connection log:

We had no problem setting it up here, so I'm afraid I can't offer much
advice.

> 20:42:45 pppd pppd 2.3.11 started by nobody, uid 99
> 20:42:45 pppd Using interface ppp0

...

This is a log from a successful connection:
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Dec 28 21:47:42 arisen pppd[228]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 28 21:47:42 arisen pppd[228]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp0
Dec 28 21:47:42 arisen pppd[228]: Warning - secret file
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access
Dec 28 21:47:43 arisen pppoe[252]: PPP session is 272
Dec 28 21:47:45 arisen kernel: Packet log: input - eth1 PROTO=2
192.168.0.1:65535 224.0.0.1:65535 L=28 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=1 (#8) 
Dec 28 21:47:46 arisen pppd[228]: Warning - secret file
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group access
Dec 28 21:47:47 arisen pppd[228]: local  IP address 210.9.241.54
Dec 28 21:47:47 arisen pppd[228]: remote IP address 210.9.242.1
Dec 28 21:47:49 arisen smoothwall: PPP has gone up on ppp0
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> 20:42:49 pppd PAP authentication failed

This would appear to me to be the offending line.

> any suggestions?

Try the correct username and password! Your username should be of the
form: pbarker at webone.com.au

> Rob

Good luck!
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