From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 11:21:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9BC14BD4 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA17172; Mon, 17 May 1999 19:17:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01024; Mon, 17 May 1999 09:18:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199905170818.JAA01024@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Ghulam Dastgir" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 May 1999 23:01:28 PDT." <01bea02a$b4476140$LocalHost@signup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:18:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > I've been suffering...I mean, having problems, simply to get my FBSD = > (ver 2.2.6) box to talk to my modem AND successfully dialup my ISP = > (Force 9 in the UK in this case). Before I say anything more, I am = That's who I use :-) Unfortunately they never responded when I sent them ppp configuration info for their web pages (they've got Linux information there). > presently using an INTERNAL Rockwell 56Kbps Voice Fax Modem. > Firstly, do you think my problems lie with my modem being an internal = > device rather than being an external device as is usually recommended = > for Unix machines in general. > If the modem is the problem here I don't mind going out and getting an = > external one. The modem *should* be ok. Given that it's not a winmodem.... > If you think the modem is OK then I'll carry on. Please find attached my = > ppp.conf, ppp.linkup and ppp.log files (don't worry if filenames appear = > truncated as I'm using this shitty O/S called Windows for the email !!). > In the ppp.conf file the "dial" may look like it's typed across 2 lines, = > it's not really. > > Oh another thing when I do ifconfig tun0, I get: > tun0: flags=3D8010 mtu 1500 The most suspicious thing in your config is the 4 second timeout talking to your modem, but this is *exactly* the same as my dial string :-) I'm using a USR 33.6k Sportster. How about enabling chat logging (``set log +chat'') ? One other thing. Although they don't really mention it much (I haven't looked in some time though), Force9 support PAP/CHAP logins, so you can ``set authname'' and ``set authkey'' and do away with the ``set login''. This seems to be far more reliable - I found at one point that if you leave the ``set login'' there, they sometimes demand PAP/CHAP authentication anyway, then subsequently fail your authentication.... > Ghulam -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message