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From: Ben Jackson <bjj@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: upgrade from 2.2-960801-SNAP to 2.2.5-REL, user ppp neg problem
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:48:38 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120112233.4893F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Nov 20, 97 11:25:21 am
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> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Ben Jackson wrote:
> > Is there any way I can tell why the negotiation is never completing?
> 
> Check out http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html and check the docs.  You may
> need to bump ppp to what's on that page to get the extra logging features.

Thanks for the pointer -- `set openmode passive' seems to have done the
trick (although it was unnecessary with the older version...).  I don't
think it is actually seing its own echo, but perhaps there's some bug in
negotiation which makes it advantageous to let the other side start.

Thanks!
--Ben