Hello diald-people,
I hope you get this message soonish - things are so bad here that it may
be a while!
Our ISDN line (or possibly TA) has died (No Carrier) and the phone
companies have spent 2 days passing the buck. So in the meantime we are
using an ancient 9600 baud Pace linnet quad 32 modem (which is all we
have lying around, apart from some 2400 baud ones! ).
After changing the serial speed down to 19200 in diald.conf and the phone
number in the connect script to one suitable for analogue modems we are
back in business, but only in an extrememly unreliable kind of way. The
modem only succeeds indailing up OK about half of the time, and even
when it does it often gets killed after a few seconds:
Sep 30 19:53:19 court2 pppd[20450]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Sep 30 19:53:19 court2 pppd[20450]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 30 19:53:19 court2 pppd[20450]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Sep 30 19:53:21 court2 pppd[20450]: local IP address xxx.xxx.x.xxx
Sep 30 19:53:21 court2 pppd[20450]: remote IP address xxx.xxx.x.xxx
Sep 30 19:53:44 court2 pppd[20450]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Sep 30 19:53:44 court2 pppd[20450]: Modem hangup
Sep 30 19:53:44 court2 pppd[20450]: Connection terminated.
Sep 30 19:53:45 court2 pppd[20450]: Exit.
Sep 30 19:53:46 court2 diald[16006]: PPP network layer died, but link did not.
Probable configuration error.
sometimes it stays up for a few minutes before this happens (and then
some mail dribbles out/in).
Sometimes it does this instead:
Sep 30 18:27:10 court2 pppd[19329]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Sep 30 18:27:10 court2 pppd[19329]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 30 18:27:10 court2 pppd[19329]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Sep 30 18:27:16 court2 pppd[19329]: local IP address xxx.xxx.x.xxx
Sep 30 18:27:16 court2 pppd[19329]: remote IP address xxx.xxx.x.xxx
Sep 30 18:27:55 court2 pppd[19329]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Sep 30 18:27:55 court2 pppd[19329]: Modem hangup
Sep 30 18:27:55 court2 pppd[19329]: Connection terminated.
Sep 30 18:27:56 court2 pppd[19329]: Exit.
Sep 30 18:27:58 court2 diald[16006]: Link died on remote end.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this
unreliability? What might be different about the ppp setup for a slow
analogue modem instead of a 64K isdn TA, calling the same provider? I
tried talking to the ISP, but the people there hardly understood what a
modem init string was, never mind how PPP might work - unbelievable!
It was all working very well with the old TA...
I'm using the stock connect script on diald 0.16.5a on redhat 5.1, kernel
2.0.35.
#
# diald.conf for aleph one
device /dev/ttyS1
#speed 115200
speed 19200
lock
mode ppp
local 158.152.9.127
remote 158.152.1.222
defaultroute
modem
crtscts
connect /etc/diald/connectlinnet
retry-count 3
#new settings for linnet
redial-timeout 3
redial-backoff-start 4
dial-fail-limit 20 # block the connection after 20 fails
fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl
accounting-log /var/log/diald
include /etc/diald/alephtime.filter
ppp options:
name aleph1
noipdefault
Wookey
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Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel (00 44) 1223 811679
work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
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