On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: > On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It > starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. > The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login > prompt and my system does know what to do so it just tries to connect > blind as a bat without sending the login/password.
This indicates that you have set it up to use link control protocol (LCP) which is the first part of establishing a PPP link, but BellSouth may be using CHAP? > We have caller ID here and it works fine. My brother who uses windoze > and lives next door uses them and it works fine for them. I may try it > again to see if anything has changed. Maybe it needed time to use the > caller ID to see we are allowed to connect. > > I'm open to ideas though. I have tried Kppp, wvdial and pon and get no > joy out of it at all. No worky. :-( I assume that you have tried out the different authentication methods in kppp (pap/chap and what not). Not sure if the use of tcpdump and, or wireshark would show anything particularly revealing here? This would be more meaningful if you compare with a dial up number that actually works. From what I understand BellSouth use 'TCP header compression' which I believe requires the vj-max-slots option enabled in pppd, but don't know for sure what the number should be, if this is enabled by default, etc. (you could try from 2 to 16 and see what gives). Additionally, a chat with the ISPs' sysadmin might help (if need be with giving you a login script). If their system works with OSX which I believe it does, it would probably work with Linux too. -- Regards, Mick
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