[CLUE-Tech] L2TP for dial-up?

[David Anselmi]

I have a dial-up account with americanisp.net.  I connect to it using 
kppp.  The kppp script sends the username and password and then waits 
for "PPP" which comes right before the PPP handshaking starts.

So recently something changed at the ISP and instead of sending "PPP" 
they send "L2TP" (and then some handshaking starts).

Anyone ever heard of using L2TP (l2tpd on Linux, I guess) for a dialup 
connection?  The stuff I see on Google seems to indicate that L2TP is a 
way to tunnel PPP (normally used on serial lines) over an IP network. 
So it seems to make little sense that a dial-up would use it.

Starting pppd after the "L2TP" doesn't seem to work.  Naturally Windows 
XP connects just fine.

Peace,
Dave