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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPPD: Connecting FBSD 2.0.5R to 2.1R
Date: 12 Feb 1996 00:44:22 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <4fm2h6$6pm@helena.MT.net>
References: <andrewgDMAo5x.3Js@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net
Keywords: PPPD, pppd
In article <andrewgDMAo5x.3Js@netcom.com>,
Andrew Ghali <andrewg@netcom.com> wrote:
>I hate to add to the pppd problems but I got 'em.
OK, I suspect the problem to be:
>The /etc/ppp/options file on the 2.0.5 machine is:
>-------
># ------/etc/ppp/options------
># Working as a PPP server a client
>crtscts # Hardware flow control
>netmask 255.255.255.0 # netmask ( not required )
>domain spud.com # your domain
>modem # modem line
>lcp-echo-interval 30 # send echo request every 30 seconds
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why this doesn't work, I don't know. I tried using this on my boxes for
cases when the lines 'hang' but the connection still seems to be up.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for some reason.
Remove this line and I suspect all will be well.
>Feb 2 23:42:19 po pppd[8288]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
^^^^^^^
I don't think this is fixed in 2.1 since I'm using 2.1 boxes as well.
Nate
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