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From: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Subject: getting ppp to work
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:51:01 GMT
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	Hi... I'm running FreeBSD 1.1 BETA and am having some
troubles getting ppp to work on my generic 486DX/33 over
my Hayes compatible 9600 modem.
	I've been using tip for a while now with FreeBSD and
have had virtually no problems with it.  I've been dialing
into a place that offers PPP links.  So I recompiled my
kernel with the line:

pseudo-device   ppp     2

(I also tried just 1).  When I escape back out of tip to my local
system (using ~^Z), I cd to /usr/libexec and try: pppd /dev/tty01 9600
It starts to work for a little bit, then all of the sudden a few
seconds into it hangs up!  Here's the results from /var/log/messages:

Mar 29 04:00:13 bridge pppd[120]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 29 04:00:19 bridge pppd[120]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Mar 29 04:00:19 bridge pppd[120]: Quitting

	Does anyone here have any experience working with ppp or know
how I can use these messages to figure out what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer! :-)

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| Raymond L. Gilbert       | "...the present rule in computing the circle's  |
| pi@indiana.edu           |  area is entirely wrong..."                     |
| IUB Dept. of Physics     |  - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897|