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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd problems Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:17:34 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 46 Message-ID: <321296CE.71A8@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32116e1c.354846@news.vuw.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Richard Bain wrote: > > I am having some troubles setting up pppd at home to connect to my > internet provider, under FreeBSD 2.1.0R, with dynamic IP allocation > > Here is my options file from /etc/ppp/options: > > /dev/modem > 38400 > connect "/usr/bin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/sample.chat" > crtscts > defaultroute > mru 296 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > noipdefault > ipcp-accept-local > ipcp-accept-remote > [ log message snipped; indicated connection made; then dropped ] > > I didn't think I had changed anything, and I am sure that my service > provider hadn't either, but this is obviously not the case. > > Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? > I'm not entirely sure, but I'll try. First, I think you need to say just 'modem' rather than /dev/modem. Second, you may be running into a problem with your 'connect' line. Mine is just: connect /etc/ppp/dial-erols without specifying any program. pppd calls up chat automatically to execute the specified chat script. This may be running you into a timing screw-up, in that a second instance of chat may shut down your modem in the effort to establish a connection, without realizing that the first instance has already done the job. I don't know if this is it, but this is where I'd start to work on it. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |