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Re: pppd





On Tue, 9 May 2000, Mike Almogy wrote:

> I give up.
> I tried all that i can think of, i spent hours searching mailing lists and deja news in order to find why my pppd is not working :-(((.
> I installed the whole computer 4 time now each time with diffrent configuration.
> Now i have the GNOME and i tried to configure the connection with RedHat dialer configuration and it look ok.
> It recognize the modem, i can send commands to the modem, but when i use the RedHat Dialer it does not work !

dear mike. i suggest you become a chef - you've made quite a salad out of
your dial-out system...

1. either you use dip, or you use chat. using both of them as you try to
   is wrong - you tell dip to dial, and then you also tell chat to dial?

2. you login to the server using a login script (of dip), but then you
   specify a 'user' parameter, as if you intend to do PAP or CHAP
   authentication. from what i see here, the 'user' option in
   /etc/ppp/options should be removed.

3. if you read the pppd manual properly, you'll see that the 'passive'
   option should normaly NOT be used.

4. you should learn about pppd's "debug" option, that enables creating log
   records containing all the negotiations it attempts to perform. you
   need to then configure syslogd (man syslog.conf) to log records coming
   from the 'daemon' facility, in 'debug' level, into some log file.

i would suggest that you completely dump usage of 'dip' or of any
graphicsl dialer, and use only pppd and chat. activate pppd using 
"pppd 38400 /dev/modem" . configure chat to do the appropriate logon
session (or rather use PAP authentication - ask barak if they support it -
it is probably easier to set up then to use a full login script).

to sumarize - first get all the needed technical details from barak's
support (don't ask them about linux or windows. ask them if they support
'PAP' or not. if not, ask them to give you an example login script.

bonne appetite,

guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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