From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 8:54:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9766937BB75; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.nat.Awfulhak.org [172.31.0.12]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA98357; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:54:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00480; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:11:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200004050711.IAA00480@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Adam Steffes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S In-Reply-To: Message from Adam Steffes of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:09:21 PDT." <38EA7621.48F887A5@ucdavis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:11:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- 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