From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 06:09:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA06913 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA06893 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA26137; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:08:48 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199609241308.IAA26137@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: PPPD problems with direct serial connection To: richardl@enterprise.ufp.com (Richard Levenberg) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:08:48 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609240458.VAA00395@ufp.com> from "Richard Levenberg" at Sep 23, 96 09:58:49 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Richard Levenberg said: > > No matter what I try I cant get past this timeout for LCP requests. Can > anybody please help me or at least suggest something to try next. I do > not want to use user ppp at this time, however. Thank you in advance. > Please if you need any other information to help me just ask. I dont > know what is important in this situation so I am just shooting in the > dark. I use iijppp so I can't help on those, but are you sure your null modem cable works correctly? Have you tried tipping from one to the other? Start up a getty on one and tip to the other to confirm connectivity. Does the cable have everything for hardware handshaking? Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030