In article <19990827141651.B1844@labitzke.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Bjoern Labitzke <hermit@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hello...
>
>I just discovered (by finally logging the pppd debug info) that the new
>pppd seems to require PAP authentication of the called peer by default. Is 
>this wanted behaviour? It just got me wondering, because my connection
>refused for two days to come up with seemingly no reason until I found that
>the server I am calling is answering pppds PAP-request with "" and "" as
>user name and password.
>

Just add noauth to your config file.

christos