...snip.....
> 1) chat makes the call, creates the basic connection, and
> exits.
> 2) pppd takes over and does the username/password
> authorization.
> 3) Netspace sends the 'choose an option' output. I believe
> this is what is messing me up and I've tried
> to deal with it in my chat script, but now I believe that
> this will never succeed because chat has already finished
> its work and exited.
I'm not sure how the newer linux versions work, but with the older
connection system, Chat run everything including this option choice. You
have a list somewhere like
sername reply
assword your-password
ption 5 or something
> 4) ppd has more sent/rcvd messages which I don't really
> understand, and I am told the remote IP address.
> 5) I can 'ping' and 'traceroute' to the remote IP address, but
> Netspace's DNS IP addresses are 'Network is unreachable'.
This is a routing issue.
again, old stuff, there is a script that is invoked after connection by
the PPP sequence, that effectively issues
route add default dev ppp0
>
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