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To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
cc: Kyle Mestery <mestery@cobber.cord.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PPP with a livingston portmaster 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 1997 18:01:00 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 07:56:08 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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?
> > 
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > Kyle A.D. Mestery                | 	  --* POWERED BY FREEBSD *--
> > 1901 20th St. S #4		 | Network Support Specialist
> > Moorhead, MN 56560               | Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
> > 218-236-6359			 | "My other computer runs UNIX also" -TJ
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>   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.

Grab the sources 'till the 12th (or at least end-of-play on the 9th).
Lots of changes were made that may help.

> Tom
> 
> 

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