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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@cobber.cord.edu>
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Subject: Re: PPP with a livingston portmaster
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Kyle Mestery wrote:

> 
> I am having trouble getting user PPP to work with my ISP.  I am running 
> 2.2 built as of May 5 on a Pentium 150 with a Motorolla modem.  The 
> problem is this:  Previously with my old service provider, all I did was 
> login with my username and password and then type ppp and their side 
> started teh negotiation of the connection.  Now, with my new provider, I 
> login with my username and password, and then I get a host: prompt.  My 
> ISP tech people told me this is where I need to begin the ppp process. No 
> problem, I typed 'set openmode active' to tell my machine to start the 
> process.  It sends 5 LCP packets to the portmaster, but none get 
> returned, and then it hangs up the line.  This is frustrating, because my 
> ISP tech people told me to not use LCP.  Has anyone else had similar 
> problems or found a solution?
> 
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> 

  Livingston Portmaster terminal servers will autodetect PPP at the login
prompt (I don't think they will at the host: prompt, but I never used the
host prompt).  Configure ppp to use PAP for authentication, dial the
number, and initiate ppp.  The Portmaster will autodectect the PPP frames,
and then accept your user-id and password via PAP.

Tom