Mick wrote: > 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. >
You may have hit on something good there. I disabled vj a long time ago because I was having trouble with it. I took that out and will try again. The funny things is, I used this at my brothers once and it worked fine. I'll post back what I find out. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
