glad you got this working. pppd with radius patch has already been done.
I think it may be in the FreeBSD port or I should have it around my ftp
site somewhere.


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Thomas T. Thai          Infomedia Interactive Communications
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 08:11:00PM +1000, Joel Reicher wrote:
> > Sorry to say something really obvious, but checking the obvious usually
> > has its place. :)
> > 
> > Have you specified everything with full pathnames, including the chat
> > executable, etc?
> 
> Argh.  I was going to reply "yes, of course", but then I decided to
> look through the scripts etc. once more.. and that was it.  I didn't
> specify full path for the chat command.. and when I tried starting
> pppd from init, path didn't contain /usr/sbin and.....  Well, it works
> as expected now.
> 
> I also had another problem with setting up PAP authentication.  I copied
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets over from a NetBSD 1.2 system and thought everything
> would be ok.  Wrong!  The current pppd needs _four_ words per line in
> pap-secrets.  The fourth word is the IP address to be accepted for the
> remote host.  I had to add another '*' to accept all IP's.
> 
> Seems to be working fine now.  All I need to do is hack pppd to use
> a radius server for authentication now....
> 
> Thanks a bunch to everyone who helped me in this!
> 
>   -jm
> 
>