From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cameron Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:12:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Hot to perform a null login? Message-Id: <20060201061211.GM3755@hp.com> List-Id: References: <1138770376.8869.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1138770376.8869.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Given that it's Telstra, the dominant carrier in Australia, requiring a null username on a GSM call is not at all unusual, and probably something that Matthew won't ever be able to work around as far as the provider is concerned. Authentication and billing is done using the GSM number, and not the authentication username. On the CDMA modem that I have with the same carrier, a non-null shared username is used. Everybody uses the same username as far as I can tell. Matthew, could you show us a debug log of the connection attempt? Bill asked for that before, and it would be really helpful. Add the option debug to the command line you use to start pppd. I agree with Bill that the "sent [PAP AuthReq" suggests that your end is attempting to authenticate the peer. Use the dump option to find out where the options are coming from. -- James Cameron http://ftp.hp.com.au/sigs/jc/