Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:11:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Adam Steffes <asteffes@ucdavis.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S Message-ID: <200004050711.IAA00480@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Adam Steffes <asteffes@ucdavis.edu> of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:09:21 PDT." <38EA7621.48F887A5@ucdavis.edu>
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> Hi all. I installed 4.0-R yesterday, cvsup-ed, and built 4.0-S and a
> new kernel. Since then, ppp doesn't behave. Under 4.0-R, it was fine,
> using my ppp.conf file from 3.4-S. Under 4.0-S, ppp (when run in user
> mode, on the command line) goes to "Ppp" and then back to "ppp" and
> hangs up. If I use 'term' and the at commands manually, I can make it
> work (though it doesn't set a default route - I add that, too, by hand),
> this is a major pain in the rear.
>
> I compared my 3.4-S ppp.conf to the new one that came in
> /usr/share/examples/ppp with 4.0-S, and don't see any differences.
>
> Any ideas?
At a guess, you're failing authentication because you now need to
escape the '#' in your password ? Be careful about quoting (``"'')
the # though.... there's another bug that was just plugged in this
respect !
> Adam
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