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From: lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Trouble talking to SCO's PPP using PPP 1.2 on 386BSD
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Date: 21 Apr 93 14:23:59 GMT
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X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
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I'm having very little success getting PPP 1.2 to work on my 386BSD
machine (running 0.1.2.3, in conjunction with cgd's com driver
patches).
It installs like a charm (yay!), but whenever I try to connect to my
Internet gateway (which happens to be an SCO Unix machine running a
recent version of ODT), I can't get the link up!
A look at the syslog shows that the dial out works properly, and then
some negociation is going on (they seem to agree on the character map (0),
and header compression (ac, pc, if I remember correctly); but then,
I get 10 attempts at "reconfiguration" which all fail, and then
the carrier is dropped. While this is going on, the PPP code in the
kernel is printing messages on the console like "bad fcs", or "missing
ALLSTATIONS" (or something like that).
Sigh.
I've configured SLIP links in the past, but this is my first attempt
at PPP, so before I dig in too deeply, I'd like to find out whether
I'm missing anything obvious: is SCO's PPP broken in some way? Have I
been doing something wrong? Are there any specific options I should
give to pppd to get it to work with SCO's ppp?
I'd like to hear from people who:
a) have gotten PPP 1.2 to talk to an SCO machine,
or
b) have gotten PPP 1.2 to work on 386BSD
or (even better)
c) have gotten PPP 1.2 to talk to an SCO machine from a 386BSD machine
Are there any caveats that I should be aware of before I start dumping
packets and adding tons to traces to the kernel?
Thanks in advance!
Denis, confused.
PS. The problem is not with the modem cable.
--
Denis Fortin fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca
DMR Quebec Inc, +1 (514) 877-3301 lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se
Disclaimer: any opinions in this posting are my own.