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From: "James E. Scheid" <james@infosouth.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Dial-up PPP - can't seem to get it to work!?!?!
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:07:00 -0500
Organization: InfoSouth, Inc.
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I would REALLY appreciate some help if someone could.

I am trying to set up a dial-up server using FreeBSD.  I have looked at
the FAQ and Handbook and followed the steps that were set out but I
can't seem to get the setup to work.  Here's what has been done so far:

The machine is a Cyrix 586 with 4Gig of hardisk space and 24meg of ram
I have two modems (to test with) attached to Com1 and Com2 (ttyd0 &
ttyd1).  I have re-compiled the kernel with PPP support and changed the
ttys file to have the following entries:

ttyd0 "/usr/sbin/pppd -detach 57600" dialup on insecure
ttyd1 "/usr/sbin/pppd -detach 57600" dialup on insecure

I have made appropriate changes to the /etc/ppp/options and
options.ttyd0, options.ttyd1 files.

Here is what happens.  If I have PAP turned on, a retry error on ttyd0
and ttyd1 is reported.  I turn PAP off and it goes away.  If I try to
dial in from a Win95 box and all I get is a stream of data without a
login prompt of anykind.  I have tried to just dial in to the machine by
changing the ttys settings to use getty instead of pppd and all I get is
garbage.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

james scheid
james@infosouth.com