From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 2:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88ED914C11 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@marlin.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id EAA10866; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:36:08 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:36:07 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Madley To: Hamish Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More PPP arcana In-Reply-To: <19990225084725.B1E3914D49@hub.freebsd.org> 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 did you create a ppp.linkup? provider: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR also the set dial under the default needs to be in there Default: set device /dev/cuaa1 set dial "ABORT etc. etc. etc. look at the FreeBSD manual it helps alot... On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Hamish wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am still having problems with ppp using FreeBSD 2.2.6, was hoping someone > might be able to point out my mistake(s)... > > In a nutshell, I can get interactive ppp working fine, but getting it to run > via scripts just isn't happening. Here's what works (interactive). > > su-2.01# ppp -alias > Working in interactive mode > Using interface: tun0 > ppp ON cave> set authname auth > ppp ON cave> set authkey pass > ppp ON cave> set timeout 0 > ppp ON cave> term > deflink: Entering terminal mode on /dev/cuaa0 > Type `~?' for help > atdt32225056 > CONNECT 57600 > > Packet mode detected. > > PPP ON cave> > PPP ON cave> delete ALL > PPP ON cave> add default HISADDR > > The above gets the connection, everything. Every time. > > Now, the following DOESN'T work... being the contents of my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: > > default: > set device /dev/cuaa0 > set speed 57600 > set dial "ATDT32225056" > set redial 60 > set reconnect 60 4 > > background: > set authname auth > set authkey pass > set phone "32225056" > set timeout 0 > delete ALL > add 0 0 HISADDR > > I have tried lots of other variants on the dial string as well, most of them > cut and pasted from various doco, with minimal changes. Some make the lights on > the modem change, but none actually dial. I reduced the dial string to the one > above in an attempt to simplify the problem. > > I use > su-2.01# ppp -alias -background > to run it, and this is a typical excerpt from /var/log/ppp.log for a connect: > > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5596]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5596]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: PPP Started (background mode). > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: bundle: Establish > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: closed -> opening > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: Connected! > Feb 24 18:58:41 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: opening -> dial > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Warning: Chat script failed > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: dial -> hangup > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: Disconnected! > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: Connect time: 14 secs: 0 octets > in, 0 octets out > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: total 0 bytes/sec, peak 0 bytes/sec on > Wed Feb 24 18:58:55 1999 > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: deflink: hangup -> closed > Feb 24 18:58:55 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: bundle: Dead > Feb 24 18:58:56 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: PPP Terminated (normal). > Feb 24 18:58:56 cave ppp[5597]: Phase: Parent notified of success. > Feb 24 18:58:56 cave ppp[5596]: Phase: Parent: Child failed (errdead). > > "Warning: Chat script failed" prolly means the chat script failed, but I am > having real trouble getting ANY chat scripts to work. I've also used (out of > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample): > > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK > \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" > > and a few reductions of that, but no luck. Doesn't even dial. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > Confused Hamish > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _____ | ___| Scott Madley | |___ ____ ____ _______ ______ Gulf Coast Internet Company |___ | __| |__ __|_ __| http://www.gulf.net ___| | |__| | | | | | | scott@corp.gulf.net |_____|____|____| |_| |_| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message