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From: Lewis Chen <chenl@lasorda.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD 2.10 can't get ppp to work ..  packet mode?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:02:11 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
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Aaron Springer wrote:
> 
> I installed 2.10 via ftp.. but now when I run ppp I connect to service
> provider and then get ppp "packet mode" and it just hangs.  Any advice?
> Thank you..
It's useful to look the log file ppp produced, /var/log/ppp.log
Take a look and see where it hung. PPP may hang when the option
negotiation goes into an infinite loop. When I first tried to use
ppp, it hung over the CCP protocol negotiation: ppp wanted PRED1,
but my provider insisted on BSD compression. The solution, I disabled
CCP negotiation, and now everything works fine.