[CLUE-Tech] Connecting to CSM

[Joe Daily]

Since I am an oredigger my give you another suggestion. I would use the
mines vpn.  

The way I use the vpn is that I have four port nic in an old PII 400 and
using iptables, I route all traffic to the mines subnets (138.67.0.0) via
the vpn and then the rest of the traffic is routed using your isp. I have
all the scripts if you want them.

Joe
jdaily at mines.edu
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Message: 6
From: "Randy Arabie" <randy at arabie.org>
To: "clue-tech" <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:03:49 -0400
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Dial-up Connection w/ kppp
Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us

Since we've given up our DSL line at home, I was trying to set my 
Debian (woody) box up to establish a dial-up connection to the Colorado 
School of Mines (CSM).  I know there are a couple of Ore Diggers on the 
list, so hopefully one of you might be able to help.  I've posted some 
error message output at the bottom.

I'm using kppp to setup the connection.  The machine in question is a 
Toshiba Satellite laptop w/ a PCMCIA card modem.  The modem works fine, 
the remote server responds, and I get authenticated.  The CSM modem 
pool requires the client to authenticate with a terminal window...at 
least that's what their documentation describes for Windows users.  
They do not provide any documentation for Linux users.  So, I'm 
prompted for username, then password. After this authentication I am 
given a list of options, one of which is ppp.  I type ppp and, as the 
documentation confirms should happen, a string of gibberish begins to 
run accross the terminal window.  

The instructions for the Windows users says that, at this point, I 
should either hit the [continue] button on the terminal window or the 
[F7] key.  When I hit the [continue] button on my kppp terminal window 
I get disconnected.  Nothing happens when I try the [F7] key (or any 
other).  And, if I just leave the terminal window open (do nothing), I 
get disconnected after a short time.

I'm not sure if CSM is using PAP/Chap or some other means of setting up 
the PPP connection.  The documentation does not provide these details.

Would anyone on the list have any recommendations?

**Now that I've composed this message _and_ had the opportunity to 
Google a little, it seems that my LAN config options may be conflicting 
with my dial-up network attempts.  I say this based on some newsgroup 
posts to comp.os.linux.networking regarding this error message:

"pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself"

I looks like I might need to edit /etc/ppp/options to make sure my 
default ethernet routes are killed.

Despite this, any feedback is still welcome...especially any specific 
recommendations regarding Linux dial-up connections to CSM ;)

I've pasted some output below:

#
# This is my session in the terminal window
#
rabie at hagrid:~$ kppp
Opener: received OpenLock
Opener: received OpenDevice
Opener: received ExecPPPDaemon
In parent: pppd pid 1635
Kernel supports ppp alright.
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received OpenResolv
pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use 
to do so.
pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.)
It was pppd that died
pppd exited with return value 1
Sending 1619 a SIGUSR1
Opener: received RemoveSecret
Opener: received RemoveSecret
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received RemoveLock
Opener: received PPPDExitStatus
Opener: received OpenSysLog
WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode:  42

#
# This is the kppp Login Script Debug Window
#
ATZ
OK
ATM1L1
OK
ATDT3035900010
CONNECT 31200
Colorado School of Mines - AUTHORIZED USE ONLY
Please enter your slate username/password for validation.

login: username
Password:
Log onto slate or larkspur to telnet to an unlisted system.
ppp         start a PPP session
slip        start a slip session
slate       telnet to slate
larkspur    telnet to larkspur
exit        exit

kato>ppp
}#@!}!}!} }?}!}$}%\}%}&P"?}'}"}(}"}1}$}%\}3}#} Q-~}#@!}!}"} }?}!}$}%\}%}
&P"?}'}"}(}"}1}$}%\}3}#} DL~

#
# This is the PPP-log written out by kppp
#
Jun 15 08:47:24 hagrid pppd[1635]: The remote system is required to 
authenticate itself
Jun 15 08:47:24 hagrid pppd[1635]: but I couldn't find any suitable 
secret (password) for it to use to do so.
Jun 15 08:47:24 hagrid pppd[1635]: (None of the available passwords 
would let it use an IP address.)

-- 
Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/

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