Re: [ILUG-BOM] VPN Help - Linuxers

26 Sep 2001

Setup PAP / CHAP secrets or try noauth switch to pppd. Or put following lines in
/etc/ppp/peers/vpn
---
noauth
name vpn
---

and call pppd with argument 'call vpn'

read man pppd for details.

Amish.

...
  The error I'm getting as below.

/usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
/usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use 
to do so.
...
 /usr/sbin/pppd: (None of the available passwords would
let it use an IP  address.)