From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 07:58:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stack.comstar.ru (stack.comstar.ru [195.210.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23894 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvv@col.ru) Received: from winproxy (d018.p1.col.ru [195.210.130.18]) by stack.comstar.ru (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19133 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:57:32 +0400 (MSD) From: "Zaitsev Serg" To: Subject: Fw: bin/7660: ppp hangups Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:53:45 +0400 Message-ID: <01bdcc4a$55b826a0$3e0010ac@winproxy.aprcity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please, answer where to get "synchronous" ppp program ? #man sppp or #sppp is absent. Preferrably is "sppp" for FreeBSD 2.2.7 or 2.2.5. /stand/ppp or /usr/sbin/ppp has no options for "synchronous" ppp. I can't achieve ppp-link with my ISP's Cisco router by "asynchronous" ppp. Please, help. Zaitsev Serg, mvv@col.ru -----Original Message----- From: Brian Somers To: Zaitsev Serg Cc: brian@FreeBSD.org ; freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Date: 20 августа 1998 г. 2:28 Subject: Re: bin/7660: ppp hangups >Hi, > >Thanks for your mail. I haven't included it since it contains >passwords etc, but I've cc'd this to freebsd-gnats for tracking >purposes. > >It seems that your ISDN link is synchronous - ie, the ``async'' layer >that data passes through at the link level is not required. This is >evident by comparing the data you're receiving at the async level >(async logging) with the data that's being sent at the hdlc level >(which is then escaped etc. at the async level). Ppp can support this >in theory, but in practice it's horribly broken and I don't have the >(hardware) resources to even attempt to fix it. > >However, all's not lost. Joerg has done some work on synchronous >ppp, but you'll need to use the kernel ppp implementation. The >sppp(4) man page describes how to go about getting things up and >running. > >I'm afraid I know very little about kernel ppp, so if you run into >difficulties, your best bet is to ask some questions on > > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > >Sorry I'm not more help. > >Cheers. > >-- >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