tlug: Re: tlug-digest V1 #688

["Jonathan Byrne" <jbyrne@example.com>]

> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:22:05 +0900 (JST)
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
> Subject: tlug: ATT Worldnet PPP connection
> 
> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <jbyrne@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Jonathan> I've been following the posts here about PPP connections
>     Jonathan> and ATT WorldNet under Linux and have put in the perl
>     Jonathan> script that was recenty posted here, as well as putting
>     Jonathan> in my userid and password in chap-secrets and
>     Jonathan> pap-secrets, but I still cannot make a succesful
>     Jonathan> connection.
> 
>     Jonathan> My setup is an NEC Aterm IT55 DSU terminal adapter on
>     Jonathan> COM 2 with Pacific Hi-tech's new Turbo Linux 1.0
>     Jonathan> distribution.  When I run the script, it dials but fails
>     Jonathan> after about 10 seconds (or less).  Once this has
>     Jonathan> happened,
> 
> The "after that" is either a script bug (not reinitializing the
> adaptor) or Ministry of Post and Telecoms F**KAGE.  MPT has put a
> requirement in that you only be allowed to redial after 3 minutes or
> some such nonsense.  (No, I didn't read the regs, but if I tell my

If that's a regulation, I think nobody's following it.  I've never had any
trouble dialing at very close intervals, even when using a Japanese-market
modem.  Anyway, the things works fine under Windows 95-J on the same
system, so I think it's fairly safe to rule out all problems outside of how
it's relating to Linux and the other way around.

I have verified that the script is typed in exactly as it appeared here, so
if it's a bug, I didn't do it :-)

Once the connection fails, the only things that work are to 1) Wait several
minutes, and 2) Do a power-on reset of the TA.  Then it might try to dial
again. Then it will fail to connect and repeat the exact same thing.  I
work for an ISP other than AT&T (this is a legacy account that I've had for
a long time and have kept), so maybe I'll have to try dialing into one of
our access points and connecting there.  If it works, then I'll know it's
that auto-detection equipment AT&T uses.  Gives my v.34 Sportster fits,
too.

> The initial lossage is probably due to the fact that many providers do 
> things differently with ISDN (that is an ISDN TA, right?)

Yes, it is.  The Aterm IT55 (and the rest of the Aterm series as well, I'm
sure) seems to be a Japan-only product.  Or more precisely, a
Japan-but-not-North-America product.  I've never met anyone who has seen on
of these there.  BTW (trivia point) this is the same DSU/TA combo that NTT
will sell you for about 53,000 yen.   Cover up the name and put them side
by side and you can't tell them apart.

Thanks!

Jonathan
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