From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 23:56:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA05417 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:56:04 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (root@efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA05411 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:56:02 -0700 Received: from garcia.efn.org by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA28891; Fri, 8 Sep 95 23:55:07 PDT Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org) by garcia.efn.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01208; Fri, 8 Sep 95 23:55:49 PDT Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: Gifka Sovereign Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using IIJPPP with SLiRP 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, Gifka Sovereign wrote: > 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. I have this same problem... it seems that SLiRP sends down some packets that isn't echoed by ijjppp... at least that is what I remeber from the logs with level set to 9... or SLiRP doesn't return the echo packets... I was looking and twice it shutdown on me also... once after 185 seconds... another at 181 seconds... I haven't looked more into this problem... as slip works quite fine... I might soon though... > > 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. :) yeh... I know it was quite hard... the scripts are the hardest :)... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)