Re: Anyone know of PPP conflicts between IOS 11.x & 12.x ? (fwd)

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Hello Jon & All,  Yup sure did .  Even got it from the horses
        mouth so to speak.  But names have been remove to protect the
        guilty ;-).  Hth,  JimL (Just below)

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Jon Fox wrote:
> Ever find your problem?  Most stuff like this I've seen has been due to
> flaky/misconfigured line hardware - had a frame circuit once that showed
> line/protocol both up, but gave CRCs on all data - turned out to be a
> DSU configured for 1 less channel than it was supposed to have...
>
> Interested in the answer,
> -Jon

 ...snip...
> bug in 12.0.4 involving the "new model" authentication stuff...
> 12.0.5 allowed for dialup to use new model but by default
> WAN links do not use new model and/or no ppp authorization
> over-rides new model... 12.0.4 does not, so PPP was trying
> to authenticate...
>
> fix is to put 
>
> aaa authorization network foo none
>
> into config and then
>
>  ppp authorization foo
>
> into config for interface...
>
> bullshit cisco stuff... 
>
> no ppp authorization
>
> which is default on WAN should have done it, and indeed did do it
> on 12.0.5T
 ...snip...

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