Subject: PPP woes
Date: Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:17:20PM -0700
In reply to:Craig Wright
Make things easy fory yourself. Use the debian 'pppconfig' program and
in about 1 minute you will have working ppp setup.
My Slackware scripts worked fine on Slink but pppconfig does too.
That asyncmap of yours looks odd to me.
HTH
Quoting Craig Wright([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> I just recently installed Debian/Slink and have been trying to get ppp
> working.
>
> Here's my basic steps:
>
> 1. Dial in with minicom and start PPP on the server side.
> 2. Quit minicom, without a reset.
> 3. execute
> /usr/sbin/pppd debug crtscts /dev/ttyS1 38400 asyncmap 20A0000
> $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute
>
> 4. I wait... the modem hangs up...
>
> Here is the contents of /var/log/ppp.log for one try:
> -------------cut here-----------------
> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.5 started by spiral, uid 1000
> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Using interface ppp0
> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: Warning - secret file
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets ha
> s world and/or group access
> May 1 01:06:40 arcadia pppd[364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
> 0x20a0000>
> <magic 0x475468e7> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> May 1 01:06:59 arcadia last message repeated 9 times
> May 1 01:07:11 arcadia pppd[364]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> May 1 01:07:11 arcadia pppd[364]: Connection terminated.
> May 1 01:07:11 arcadia pppd[364]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> May 1 01:07:11 arcadia pppd[364]: Exit.
> ------------------end cut ----------------------
>
>
> I've not had this problem before. I've run Slackware and Redhat and
> always managed to get my ppp link up, easily even.
>
> After reading the ppp how-to I realize I might have the wrong version of
> ppp. It said I needed ppp-2.2.0 for a kernel version <= 2.0.x
>
> So since I had a 2.2.1 kernel on hand I built it (with ppp support) and
> got things booting up again. PPP still won't work and the error message
> above came from a 2.2.1 boot up.
>
> Oh, then on a side I downloaded ppp-2.2.0d.tar.gz and tried to build
> it. Thinking that the HOWTO may be speaking of kernel >= 2.0 also.
> I couldn't get it to compile and since I have so many variables working
> against me I decided to post this message...
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what could be going on here?
>
> As you can see from the above log I have pppd v 2.3.5
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -Craig
> "Folding isn't an option in this game, so if you can't play
> your hand at least try to bluff." -Me
>
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