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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0R as PPP client - help PLEASE !
Date: 22 May 1995 18:01:43 +1200
Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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Keywords: ppp client freebsd
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In <3pm3t5$peo@stang.netspace.net.au>
ahill@stang.netspace.net.au (Anthony Hill) writes:
[snip]
>/etc/ppp/options as per the ppp.faq. (I removed the noipdefault line
Leave that in and remove the line containing your IP address and the remote
hosts IP address.
>
>I dial and connect to my provider using tip cua01, start ppp on the remote end, and exit tip
>(without haging the modem up). Now I type /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cua01 38400.
A simpler way to do this is to use the "chat" and a chat file. I use the
following command to initiate a connection :
root# pppd tty01 19200 connect 'chat -v -f chat.my-isp'
And in the chat.my-isp file:
ABORT BUSY
ABORT ERROR
ABORT 'NO DIALTONE'
ABORT 'NO CARRIER'
'' ATZ OK ATDT1234567 CONNECT \d
TIMEOUT 5
ogin:\s--ogin:\s mylogin ssword: mypasswd prompt:\s /usr/lib/ppp/ppp
This dials, connects and negotiates the addresses from just one line entered.
To kill the connection:
root # kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
which has the added advantage of hanging up the phone if the modem is set up
appropriately.
The most problem that I ever had with this was working out the chat script,
and that was debugged by adding the following line in /etc/syslog.conf:
# Hand chat debug messages to root
local2.debug root
The PPP.FAQ was helpful, but I ignored quite a bit of it and depended more
on the online manuals.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> | When all else fails, RTFM.
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