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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!southwind.net!usenet From: ravenpub@southwind.net (Carl D. Cravens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: User PPP - Can't make it connect automatically. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 18:14:12 -0500 Organization: Phoenyx PBeM Roleplaying Lines: 24 Message-ID: <EhW8xwIeE/7S090yn@southwind.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: onyx.southwind.net I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and I'm having trouble with the user PPP. I can start it up with 'ppp sitename' and it loads all the variables correctly. If I 'dial' it connects, but never enters PPP mode. If I go into term mode, dial manually, and ~p to enter packet mode, it works just fine. I'm connecting to an Annex terminal server which supports PPP on its own using PAP. It works as follows, when the modems connect, *immediately* enter packet mode and start sending PPP packets down the pipe. When the Annex sees packets coming it, it initiates the PAP procedure. ~p right after connect works great, automatic mode (with all combinations of PAP tried) doesn't work. (Also, on a slightly different problem, when using X (from startx) the user PPP works fine the *first* time. After that, it echoes whatever I type in term mode back at me, apparently sending it through the modem and having it returned, but the modem doesn't respond to any commands even after power-cycling. Exiting X and restarting it solves the problem.) -- Carl (ravenpub@southwind.net) If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny.