Re: [pptp-devel] No suitable CHAP Password

[James C. <jam...@hp...>]

You wrote:
> (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.)

How timely, I just found a new cause of this myself, yesterday.  Check
your chap-secrets file, make sure the IP address column has an asterisk.

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#required_to_auth_ip

Symptom: pppd fails during a connection attempt and issues this message:

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

Note the last line. If this is not present, read the next entry.

Diagnosis: No IP address listed in chap-secrets file. pptp-command adds
entries to the file without an IP address, and the manual page for pppd
says that this means no IP address will be considered valid. Not all
versions of pppd require this.

Solution: Adjust the chap-secrets file to add an asterisk as the
address, which is the fourth field.

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