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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:10:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Teufelskerl <snhillbr@cs.uchicago.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Modem PPP Connection
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008291657120.3272-100000@yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008290053010.1626-100000@kushnir1.kiev.ua>

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I'm have a bit of trouble connecting via PPP to a Cisco Router.  When I
term in ppp and connect manually, I am able to connect without difficulty,
however trying to connect via a chat script gives me continual problems.
In fact, I could not connect using a script at all for the longest time.

Then, in an attempt to debug the problem, I ran cat /dev/cuaa2 (my modem
on COM3).  The output was not quite right as I only got the dial string
and the first part of the login message (Welcome to ... Username:).
However, this time, surprisingly, I authenticated and could use the
system.  There were annoying beeps, however, as every so often, during a
download, I would get output on the second terminal with bell characters.
Additionally, the connection was extremely flakey.

Now, I have figured out that I need to cat /dev/cuaa2 _only_ when first
connecting.  After connecting, I CTRL-c the second terminal and nothing
goes wrong.  Solid as a rock.

On the advice of Tom Keats, I disabled all compression on the modem but to
no avail.  I have also attempted to reduce the speed of the connection by
setting the speed in ppp.conf.  However, since the issue is only at login,
this seems an unlikely problem.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, 
seth

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