From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 15:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laime.cs.uchicago.edu (laime.cs.uchicago.edu [128.135.11.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C5437B6D4 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu (yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu [128.135.11.46]) by laime.cs.uchicago.edu (8.10.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7TMBKo07264 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:11:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 10121) id 9F949206; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:10:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yeenoghu.cs.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60159204 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:10:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:10:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Teufelskerl To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Modem PPP Connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Please cc: me in replies for filtering purposes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message