"Oliver O'Boyle" <o.oboyle@celerica.ca> writes:


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]> Has anyone else seen this error in SuSE 9 and found a solution? Do
]> any experts out there have any suggestions?

]hi, i've never run SuSE or kinternet, but just taking a guess here,
]the problem is likely that your ISP authenticates using PAP and not
]CHAP. PAP does not use encryption to send the password, whereas CHAP
]uses a hash to authenticate. If the server expects to see a plaintext

The ISP uses chap.
See the logs.

]password, but receives some form of hash, it won't know what to do
]and it will fail. is there any way for you to set your authentication
]mode to PAP?