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From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays)
Subject: Help with User PPP
Message-ID: <DpAI7I.7KK@statcan.ca>
Organization: Statistics Canada
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:14:06 GMT
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I would appreciate help in getting user-mode ppp to work.
The symptoms are as follows:
We have a dial-back mechanism (my govt department acts as a
service provider), and I am able to call out successfully, receive
the callback a few minutes later, start PPP, and apparently get
to the point where I am ready to go.  I get the message " Entering
packet mode".  At this point, I attempt to telnet to the numeric
address of the service-providing machine, but get the message "No
route to host".

Below is copy of ppp.log; I attempted to telnet in just after
22:18:25, and then again a minute or so later.

04-02 22:17:35 [191] Using interface: tun0
04-02 22:17:35 [191] PPP Started.
04-02 22:18:25 [191] *Connected!
04-02 22:18:52 [191] Disconnected!
04-02 22:18:52 [191] Connect time: 27 secs
04-02 22:18:52 [191] Phase: Dead
04-02 22:21:06 [191] LCP: state change Initial --> Closed
04-02 22:21:06 [191] LCP: state change Closed --> Stopped
04-02 22:23:44 [191] PPP Terminated.

A second problem is that PPP seems to behave erratically when
I enter 'TERM' mode.  Sometimes it echoes each character as I
type it, but does nothing; other times it transmits and receives
characters, but the echo to the screen is one character delayed,
making it hard to use.

To add to the annoyance, I have no trouble making a connection
with Windows 95!

I am using FreeBSD Release 2.1.0