Clifford Kite says:
> |Jan 3 12:43:26 chime chat[4873]: -- got it
> |......
> |
> |Jan 3 12:43:43 chime chat[4873]: ~^?}#@!}!}!} }2}!}$
> |Jan 3 12:43:43 chime chat[4873]: -- got it
> |Jan 3 12:43:43 chime chat[4873]: send (/etc/ppp/ppplogin^M)
> |Jan 3 12:43:44 chime pppd[4871]: Serial connection established.
> |Jan 3 12:43:44 chime pppd[4871]: Using interface ppp0
> |Jan 3 12:43:44 chime pppd[4871]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
>
> Look at what's happening here. Chime gets part of a PPP LCP message from
> orbital *before* chat is finished with it's assigned task. That has to
> mean that you set up orbital to launch pppd in /etc/passwd so you can't
> really expect a shell prompt from orbital.
>
> You got lucky because the 2.2.0 pppd on orbital requests an mru of 1500
> which is a 4 byte option and the option length is sent in the LCP request.
> At this point in the LCP negotiations all control characters are escaped
> and 4 is a control character. So 4 is XOR with 20h and the result is 24h
> which is the ASCII $.
You are absolutely right! On Orbital, I used to have it that PPP was
launched from shell logins to home directories, hence looking for the
shell prompt '$. Things changed later so that PPP was launched from
passwd and since it worked, I overlooked updatint the chat script.
I have cleaned it up and now things are working. Uh, except for one
last little thing....
Compression. My kernel is setup for loadable modules (kmod, not kerneld)
and in the modules directory of the client/server machines are the
modules bsd_comp.o, ppp_deflate, ppp.o. But I see no indication in the
logfile about compression enabled/disabled...maybe there isn't any but
I do get in the logfiles of both machines the following missing modules:
Jan 4 12:32:58 chime modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Jan 4 12:32:58 chime modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
Jan 4 12:32:58 chime modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
> BTW did you notice that your mailer or your host clock has a Y2K bug?
> Either that or you've time-traveled back to 100 A.D. and are using an
> Interchronologicalnet.
Oh, sorry, I'm using the Interchronologicalnet. We just had our Y1k
rollover and my old friend ELM has seen better days I afraid. Will
have to migrate over to Pine and I have a recent release to install.
Thanks for your helpful replies Clifford!
Cheers,
--Paul T.
--
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
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