From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 9:10 PM


: On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:48:06PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
: >
: > > Anyone out there a whiz at setting up a pppd dialin server?  I am
: > > trying to put together an RPM for pppd dialin configurations
: > > that will support default Windows NT and Linux dial in clients
: > > without requiring the poor user to learn bash scripting, chat
: > > scripting, mgetty and inittab configuration, etc.  The steps
: > > in setting this up are about as easy as going on a U.N. relief
: > > mission to equatorial Africa, and most customers who are
: > > "mere mortals" would give up about an hour into it.
: >
: > Red Hat's ppp client setup is about a 90 second job
:
: I am using theirs as a base.   Setup's not the issue.  It's the
: chap MD5 authentication for NT clients and the constant
: crashing that's troublesome.  I have it working, just not
: with NT clients.

Probably this little patch will help you. I had similar problems with
Windows 95 and encryption
enabled.

Raivis