From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 22:20:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA03510 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 22:20:53 -0700 Received: from netcom18.netcom.com (gif@netcom18.netcom.com [192.100.81.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA03504 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 22:20:52 -0700 Received: by netcom18.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id WAA13458; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 22:17:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 22:17:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Gifka Sovereign Subject: Re: Using IIJPPP with SLiRP To: John-Mark Gurney cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > if this was just doing a term to dial and log in... what you needed to do > was a "~p" to put it into packet mode... it seems strange... but SLiRP > doesn't send out the initing packets like all other ppps do... so you > have to tell it that there is ppp on the other end... I had the same > problem... but if you dial with chat scripts... it automaticly goes into > packet mode after the login script is complete... I did the "~p" and iijppp did go into packet mode. According to the capitolized "PPP xx xxxx>" line, it did go into packet mode and for all intents and purposes, it seemed to be working. But I could do nothing afterwards. After 3 minutes, iijppp would logout and disconnect the modem from the line. > of course with iijppp you can do auto dial... i haven't quite gotten it > to work perfectly with SLiRP but it is possible... TTYL... That's a handy feature, indeed! When I regain my sanity from my PPP ordeal, I'll have to look into iijppp again. :)