From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 13:43:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FCA37BB0A for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat41.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.233]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id XAA08070 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:42:48 +0200 Received: (qmail 7047 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Mar 2000 15:02:04 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:02:04 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bob Martin Cc: Robert Small , "questions@FreeBSD. org" Subject: Re: PPP Message-ID: <20000305170203.C6620@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38C15780.1D7D22B3@buckhorn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38C15780.1D7D22B3@buckhorn.net>; from bob@buckhorn.net on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:35:44PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:35:44PM -0600, Bob Martin wrote: > Robert Small wrote: > > > > Ok, I give up. I just install FreeBSD 3.3 (and I am completely new > > at FreeBSD), and I can't get the ppp to work. It dials up my ISP > > fine but the moment PPP starts, it disconects. Any all help would > > be GREATLY appreciated! > > Any suggestions, from what logs to check, to what needs to be done in > what order would be of great help. I don't know what the problem might be without the configuration of your pppd daemon, and information about authentication methods in that ISP. For instance, with Extreme (www.x-treme.gr) that I'm now using, one has to use a funny authentication method. When I dial and get connected, x-treme.gr connects back to me on TCP/6699 and waits for an authentication string. If I don't send it, the line is closed. Now you can see why I can't help much without knowing more information about your ISP and/or pppd setup. However the following will probably help you debug it yourself :) You can enable verbose logging in pppd by adding to your current /etc/ppp/options the keyword: debug Then add the following lines to your /etc/syslog.conf and send a HUP signal to syslogd so that it rereads the config file. !pppd *.* /var/log/ppp.log This will make sure that all messages from pppd will go into ppp.log After that, you can watch as thing get written into /var/log/ppp.log while you're running pppd to connect to your ISP, by executing before you start pppd to dial: # tail -f /var/log/ppp.log & Now, you're ready to dial in... -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message