Re: tlug: ISDN / pppd hell.

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Vincent Thomas wrote:

> Help !
> 
> I just threw out my 56K modem in favour of a shiny new Sony STA128 ISDN
> modem and I haven't been online from Linux ever since - Of course it
> works like a charm when I try using 95 :-(
> 
> The MAJOR change (if I understand it correctly) is that I am now
> logging on at high speed which means that instead of login / password,
> tbeing handled by the chat script, the authentication (PAP) is now
> handled directly by the pppd daemon.
> I've made entries in my pap-secrets file, tried beefing up the options
> in my options file, but the debug output in the system files always
> shows
> that I cannot get beyond a CONNECT - I get an "LCP:timeout sending
> Config-Requests" every time. (Even if I try dialing in on minicom,
> exit without a reset and manually start pppd)
> 

> Anyone had any similar experiences / any ideas what might be the problem
> ?
> I'm running RH 5.0 with version 2.3.3 of PPPD.
> 

I'll send you my ifcfg-ppp0 and chat-ppp0 scripts from my home machine,
which is running TurboLinux 1.2 w/ an AIWA AD-1280 TA.  TL and RH use the
same filesystem structure, so my scripts should work with RH5.  Expect
them sometime tomorrow.

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               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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