Iain McLaren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My diald has been running very well for over a year now. However, I
> noticed a message from pppd today that seems to occur every
> time diald makes the internet connection. The message is:
>
> pppd[3784]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>
> This has been happening for at least a month. The system's still
> working well - I was just wondering what the message meant.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> TIA,
>
> Iain
>
> P.S. My ISP is Demon Internet, in the UK.
I'm a demon user too. I think you'll find it's related to all the problems
they've been having on their ROMPs (modem banks) and dialup hosts. You might
have noticed that sometimes you get "sorrrrrry, the lines are busy" repeatedly.
And sometimes (on a V90 modem) the modem fails to do the funny farting noise at
the end and just goes into an interminable whistle instead. And sometimes the
modem completes the connection but you can't log in because the host doesn't
recognise your password. And sometimes you can log in but the host won't start
PPP negotiation. I believe the above error message is what you get when that
last problem occurs. Your chat script exits having done its job and diald tries
to run pppd. But the host has gone all quiet.
The Demon technical staff are nice people, and very helpful. But all the same,
Demon was a truly appropriate choice of name, IMHO. Their subscribers are all in
hell...
Ralph
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