>> My ppp-on script normally works perfectly, but as soon as I start diald
the
>> connection always fails to initiate. Looking the logs, the passwords
etc.
>> are negotiated perfectly, but the ppp child process that is spawned times
>> out after 55 secs... the modem hangs up and it basically doesn't work.
It
>> then retries but fails consistently.
>>
>>
>> This behaviour occurs using both my ppp-on script (normally fine), and
>> automatic dialing.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>It sounds as if you are looking at the chat dialog in
>/var/log/messages, and that works correctly. Have you enabled
>debugging in pppd and looked at the lcp messages that go back and
>forth on the line? You need to add the debug flag to the ppp
>configuration (either in /etc/ppp/options or the diald config file)
>AND add a line to /etc/syslog.conf
>
>daemon.* /var/log/ppp
>
>NOTE! The whitespace in the above line needs to be nothing but TABS!
>
>Restart (kill -1) syslogd, try to connect, and see what is in /var/log/ppp.
Thanks for your reply, Cary - here's the log.. what do you make of it?
[james@firewall log]$ cat /var/log/daemon
Jan 14 17:17:05 firewall modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-1
Jan 14 17:19:20 firewall modprobe: can't locate module ppp0
Jan 14 17:19:20 firewall pppd[308]: pppd 2.3.3 started by james, uid 500
Jan 14 17:19:53 firewall pppd[308]: Serial connection established.
Jan 14 17:19:54 firewall pppd[308]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 14 17:19:54 firewall pppd[308]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3
Jan 14 17:19:54 firewall pppd[308]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 576>
<asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x6eec> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:54 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 576>
<asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x6eec> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 576>
<asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x6eec> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
0xa0000>
<pcomp> <accomp> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 7b 0d 22>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 13 09 03 00
c0 7b
7b 0d 22>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 576>
<asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0x6eec> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
0xa0000>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap
0xa0000>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
<co
mpress VJ 0f 01>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ
0f 01
> <addr 158.152.1.222>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ
0f 01
> <addr 158.152.1.222>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr
193.237.103.
1>]
Jan 14 17:19:57 firewall pppd[308]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr
193.237.103.
1> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jan 14 17:19:58 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr
193.237.103.
1> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jan 14 17:19:58 firewall pppd[308]: local IP address 193.237.103.1
Jan 14 17:19:58 firewall pppd[308]: remote IP address 158.152.1.222
Jan 14 17:21:30 firewall pppd[308]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jan 14 17:21:30 firewall pppd[308]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"]
Jan 14 17:21:30 firewall pppd[308]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
Jan 14 17:21:30 firewall pppd[308]: Connection terminated.
Jan 14 17:21:30 firewall pppd[308]: Exit.
Jan 14 17:22:12 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
Jan 14 17:22:12 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
Jan 14 17:24:04 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
Jan 14 17:24:04 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
Jan 14 17:24:04 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
Jan 14 17:24:04 firewall modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
Jan 14 17:24:23 firewall init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jan 14 17:25:27 firewall modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-1
Thanks
- James
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